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semitono.
(a loanword from Spanish)
Headword:
semitono.
Principal English Translation:
a half tone (in music) (see attestations)
Attestations from sources in English:
This is attested in a seventeenth-century Guatemalan music manuscript. It is paired with centlacoltuzquitl which the translators give to mean "medio tono."