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Webster 1913 Edition

Diapente

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Diˊa-pen′te

(-pĕn′tē̍)
,
Noun.
[L., fr. Gr.
διάπεντε
a fifth;
διά
through +
πέντε
five: cf. F.
diapente
.]
1.
(Anc. Mus.)
The interval of the fifth.
2.
(Med.)
A composition of five ingredients.

Webster 1828 Edition

Diapente

DIAPENTE

,
Noun.
[Gr., five.]
1.
A fifth; an interval making the second of the concords, and with the diatessaron, an octave.
2.
In medicine, a composition of five ingredients.

Definition 2024

diapente

diapente

English

Noun

diapente ‎(plural diapentes)

  1. (music, obsolete) The interval of the fifth.
  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.

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

diapente ‎(indeclinable)

  1. (music) a fifth

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References

Etymology

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

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