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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
neume /njuːm/ (also neum)

▶noun Music (in plainsong) a note or group of notes to be sung to a single syllable.

– origin ME: from OFr. neume, from med. L. neu(p)ma, from Gk pneuma ‘breath’.

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