diapason

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See also: diapasón

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin diapason, from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS., that is Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS. + Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS. (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS.), “through all (notes)”.

Pronunciation

Noun

diapason (plural diapasons)

  1. (music) The musical octave.
    • 1818, Iamblichus, Thomas Taylor (translator), Life of Pythagoras‎[1], page 328:
      2 to 1, which is a duple ratio, forms the [symphony] diapason
  2. (by extension, literary) The range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument.
    Synonyms: range, scope
    • 1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer:
      the piano curving like a conch, corollas giving out diapasons of light […]
    • 1961, Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case:
      he could hear nothing except the rattle of the crickets and the swelling diapason of the frogs […]
  3. (music) A tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipe organ.

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Further reading

French

diapason (tuning fork)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin diapason, from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS., that is Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS. + Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS. (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS.), “through all (notes)”.

Pronunciation

Noun

diapason m (countable and uncountable, plural diapasons)

  1. (music, uncountable) range, diapason
  2. (countable) a tuning fork
    Synonym: accordoir

Descendants

  • → Portuguese: diapasão

Further reading

Italian

Noun

diapason m (invariable)

  1. (music) tuning fork
    Synonym: corista
  2. diapason

Derived terms

Further reading

  • diapason on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
  • diapason in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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