diapente
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin , from Ancient Greek διά (diá, “through, across”) + πέντε (pénte, “five”).
Noun edit
diapente (plural diapentes)
- (music, obsolete) The interval of the fifth or the harmonic ratio 3:2.
- (medicine, obsolete) A composition of five ingredients.
- 1816, Race-horses, method of preparing for running, entry in Encyclopædia Perthensis, 2nd Edition, Volume 18, page 571,
- If the horse be in good fleſh and ſpirits when taken up for its month′s preparation, the diapente muſt be omitted; and the chief buſineſs will be to give him good food, and ſo much exerciſe as will keep him in wind, without overſweating him or exhauſting his ſpirits.
- 1816, Race-horses, method of preparing for running, entry in Encyclopædia Perthensis, 2nd Edition, Volume 18, page 571,
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “diapente”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek διά (diá) πέντε (pénte) "every fifth".
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /di.aˈpen.te/, [d̪iäˈpɛn̪t̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /di.aˈpen.te/, [d̪iäˈpɛn̪t̪e]
Noun edit
diapente n (indeclinable)
See also edit
References edit
- “diapente”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- diapente in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- diapente in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.