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gamut

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English

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Etymology

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1520s, original sense “lowest note of musical scale”, from Medieval Latin gamma ut, from gamma (“Greek letter, corresponding to the musical note G”) + ut (“first solfège syllable, now replaced by do”). In modern terms, “G do” – the first note of the G scale.[1] Meaning later extended to mean all the notes of a scale, and then more generally any complete range.

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Noun

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gamut (plural gamuts)

  1. A (normally) complete range.
    • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      I must begin with rudiments of Art / To teach you gamoth in a briefer sort, - -
      Bian. Why, I am past my gamouth long agoe.
    • 1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob’s Room:
      The entire gamut of the view's changes should have been known to her; its winter aspect, spring, summer and autumn; how storms came up from the sea; how the moors shuddered and brightened as the clouds went over; she should have noted the red spot where the villas were building; and the criss-cross of lines where the allotments were cut...
    • 1933?, Dorothy Parker, review of Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway play The Lake
      She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.
    • 1960 December, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 776:
      THE LONDON BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Ian Allan. 30s. [...] In the course of its pages the author runs through the whole gamut of the locomotives that have during the period under review run on the rails of the L.B. & S.C. and its forebears.
  2. (music) All the notes in a musical scale.
  3. All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.

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References

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  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “gamut”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Central Dusun

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.

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gamut

  1. root

Coastal Kadazan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.

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gamut

  1. root

Dibabawon Manobo

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Etymology

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From Proto-Philippine *ʀamut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut (“fibrous roots”).

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gamut

  1. root (of a plant)

Maguindanao

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From Proto-Philippine *ʀamut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut (“fibrous roots”).

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gamut

  1. medicine

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Rungus

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.

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gamut

  1. root

Tausug

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.

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  • (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA(key): /ɡamut/ [ɡɑˈmut̪̚]
  • Rhymes: -ut
  • Syllabification: ga‧mut

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gamut (Sulat Sūg spelling ݢَمُتْ)

  1. root

Tobilung

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.

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gamut

  1. root

Yakan

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gamut

  1. root

Yogad

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Etymology

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From Proto-Philippine *ʀamut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut (“fibrous roots”).

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gamút

  1. root (of a plant)
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