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Originally Posted by Seltzer
I'd guess that Tera Melos is based on the Spanish melos because IIRC, the Greek melos means poetic order. From that we derive melody = melos (poetic order, i.e. the lyrical component of music) + ote (song).
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Ultimately, it all comes from Greek.
Melos means
music (or
chant accompanied by music), and
meloidia,
singing or
chanting. Both Greek words have the same root.
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon,
Then, from Greek to Latin, and from Latin to Neo-Latin languages (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.) as an affix to form words. Because the Spanish word for
music is
música, which ultimately comes from
(art of the) muses (as it happens in Italian, French, English and many other languages).