diatessaron
English
Etymology
From Latin , from Ancient Greek διά (diá, “through, across”) + τεσσάρων (tessárōn) (genitive plural of τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”)).
Noun
diatessaron (plural diatessarons or diatessara)
- (music, obsolete) The interval of a fourth or the harmonic ratio 4:3.
- (theology) A continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the New Testament (the canonical gospels).
- (obsolete) An electuary compounded of four medicines.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 diatessaron in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- diarsonates
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek διά (diá) τεσσάρων (tessárōn) "every fourth".
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /di.aˈtes.sa.roːn/, [d̪iäˈt̪ɛs̠ːäroːn]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /di.aˈtes.sa.ron/, [d̪iäˈt̪ɛsːäron]
Noun
diatessarōn n (indeclinable)
- (music) a fourth
- a medicine made of four ingredients.
See also
- diapāsōn
- diapente
References
- “diatessaron”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- diatessaron 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)
- diatessaron in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette