διαπασῶν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Extracted from the phrase ἡ διὰ πᾱσῶν χορδῶν συμφωνίᾱ (hē dià pāsôn khordôn sumphōníā, literally “the concord through all strings (of an instrument)”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di.a.paː.sɔ̂ːn/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /di.a.paˈson/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ði.a.paˈson/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ði.a.paˈson/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ði.a.paˈson/

Noun

δῐᾰπᾱσῶν • (dĭăpāsôn) f (indeclinable)

(music) octave

Descendants

→ Belarusian: дыяпазо́н (dyjapazón)
→ Latin: diapāsōn
- Catalan: diapasó
- → English: diapason
- French: diapason
- Italian: diapason
- Romagnol: diàpașon
- → Serbo-Croatian: dijapàzōn
- Spanish: diapasón
→ Russian: диапазо́н (diapazón)
→ Ukrainian: діапазо́н (diapazón)

Further reading

διαπασῶν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
διαπασῶν in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
διαπασῶν, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
“διαπασῶν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Pape, Wilhelm (1914) “διαπασῶν”, in Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn