English
flexatone
Blend of flexible + tone.
Latin flectō ‘to bend, curve’
Latin flexibilis ‘flexible, pliant, able to be bent’
Middle French flexible
English flexible
Proto-Indo-European *ten- ‘to stretch’
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Proto-Hellenic *tónos ‘tension’
Ancient Greek τόνος ‘strain, tension, pitch’
Latin tonus ‘sound, tone’
Middle English ton ‘tone, sound’
English tone
Today it means
noun A modern percussion instrument consisting of a small flexible metal sheet suspended in a wire frame ending in a handle.
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Etymograph / flexatone