melody: [13] Greek mélos originally meant ‘limb’ (it is related to Cornish mal ‘joint’), but it was transferred metaphorically to a ‘limb or ‘part’ of a piece of music’, a ‘musical phrase’, and from there to ‘song’. It was combined with the element ōid- ‘singing’ (source of English ode) to form melōidíā ‘choral song’, which passed into English via late Latin melōdia and Old French melodie. The compound melodrama [19] is of French origin. => melodrama, ode
melody (n.)
late 13c., from Old French melodie "music, song, tune" (12c.), from Late Latin melodia, from Greek meloidia "a singing, a chanting, choral song, a tune for lyric poetry," from melos "song, part of song" (see melisma) + oide "song, ode" (see ode).
例文
1. The melody that ran through his brain was composed of bad notes.
彼の頭の中に響いていたメロディーはすべて変調した。
2.The melody is then taken up by the flutes.
次にフルートから主旋律を奏でる。
3.She struck up a folk melody on the piano.
彼女はピアノでその民謡を演奏し始めた。
4.The melody harks back to one of his earlier symphonies.
この曲は彼の初期の交響曲を思い出させる。
5.As soon as a melody is finished with，the composer writes another.