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diapason | Word of the Day
September 29, 2018
diapason
[dahy-uh-
pey
-zuhn, -suhn]
noun
1.
Music
. a full, rich outpouring of melodious sound.
2.
Music
. the compass of a voice or instrument.
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diapason
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QUOTES
... and from the dell below rose in the night, now the monotonous chanting of the frogs, and now, as some great bull-frog took the note, a
diapason
worthy of a Brescian organ.
-- Stanley J. Weyman,
Count Hannibal
, 1901
ORIGIN
The English noun
diapason
comes from the Latin noun
diapāsōn
"musical interval of the octave," extracted from the Greek phrase
dià pāsôn (chordôn)
"through all (the notes)," from the full phrase
hē dià pāsôn chordôn symphōnía
"the concord through all the notes of the scale."
Diapason
entered English in the 14th century.
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