paranete

Unadapted borrowing from Latin paranētē, from Ancient Greek παρανήτη (paranḗtē, literally “next to the lowest [string]”). The nete was "lowest" in the sense of being the farthest from the player and physically below the other strings, but was the highest in pitch. Compare the high E string in a modern guitar, which is farthest from the player.

paranete (plural paranetes)

1. (musical pitch) In Ancient Greek musical theory, the higher-pitched of the two movable notes in the farther tetrachord on a lyre, pitched higher than the trite and lower than the nete.

• The strings/pitches from lowest-pitched (nearest the player) to highest-pitched (farthest from the player) were the hypate, parhypate, lichanos, mese, paramese, trite, paranete and nete, grouped into two tetrachords, the nearer one stretching from hypate to mese and the farther one stretching from paramese to nete. The outer two notes in a tetrachord were fixed in pitch but the inner two notes could be tuned differently.