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)

1. (music, obsolete) The interval of a fourth or the harmonic ratio 4:3.
2. (theology) A continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the New Testament (the canonical gospels).
3. (obsolete) An electuary compounded of four medicines.

Derived terms

• semidiatessaron

 

Related terms

• Monotessaron
• diapason
• diapente

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• diarsonates

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek διά (diá) τεσσάρων (tessárōn) "every fourth".

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /di.aˈtes.sa.roːn/, [d̪iäˈt̪ɛs̠ːäroːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.aˈtes.sa.ron/, [d̪iäˈt̪ɛsːäron]

Noun

diatessarōn n (indeclinable)

1. (music) a fourth
2. 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.