diapente

English

Etymology

From Latin , from Ancient Greek διά (diá, “through, across”) + πέντε (pénte, “five”).

Noun

diapente (plural diapentes)

1. (music, obsolete) The interval of the fifth or the harmonic ratio 3:2.
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.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

• neap tide, neaptide

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek διά (diá) πέντε (pénte) "every fifth".

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /di.aˈpen.te/, [d̪iäˈpɛn̪t̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.aˈpen.te/, [d̪iäˈpɛn̪t̪e]

Noun

diapente n (indeclinable)

1. (music) a fifth

See also

• diapāsōn
• diatessarōn

References

• “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.