See diapason in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for diapason meaning in English (6.2kB)
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "disdiapason"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "open diapason"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "semidiapason"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "tridiapason"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "diapason"
},
"expansion": "Latin diapason",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "διαπασῶν"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek διαπασῶν (diapasôn)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "διά",
"gloss": "through"
},
"expansion": "διά (diá, “through”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "πᾶς",
"3": "πασῶν",
"gloss": "all"
},
"expansion": "πασῶν (pasôn, “all”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "χορδή",
"3": "χορδῶν",
"gloss": "notes"
},
"expansion": "χορδῶν (khordôn, “notes”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin diapason, from Ancient Greek διαπασῶν (diapasôn), that is διά (diá, “through”) + πασῶν (pasôn, “all”) (χορδῶν (khordôn, “notes”)), “through all (notes)”.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "diapasons",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "diapason (plural diapasons)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Music",
"orig": "en:Music",
"parents": [
"Art",
"Sound",
"Culture",
"Energy",
"Society",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "13 34 39 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1818, Iamblichus, translated by Thomas Taylor, Life of Pythagoras, page 328",
"text": "2 to 1, which is a duple ratio, forms the [symphony] diapason",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The musical octave."
],
"id": "en-diapason-en-noun-h8MfFQgt",
"links": [
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"octave",
"octave"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(music) The musical octave."
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "13 34 39 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument."
],
"id": "en-diapason-en-noun-lsrcX~VF",
"links": [
[
"range",
"range"
],
[
"scope",
"scope"
],
[
"note",
"note"
],
[
"scale",
"scale"
],
[
"instrument",
"instrument"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension, literary) The range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "range"
},
{
"word": "scope"
}
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"literary"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "5 88 5 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "diapazón",
"sense": "the range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument",
"word": "диапазо́н"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 88 5 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "the range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "дијапазон"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 88 5 2",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "the range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "dijapazon"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 88 5 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "diapazón",
"sense": "the range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "діапазо́н"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Musical instruments",
"orig": "en:Musical instruments",
"parents": [
"Music",
"Tools",
"Art",
"Sound",
"Technology",
"Culture",
"Energy",
"All topics",
"Society",
"Nature",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "13 34 39 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipe organ."
],
"id": "en-diapason-en-noun-sRQH0hz~",
"links": [
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"flue pipe",
"flue pipe"
],
[
"pipe organ",
"pipe organ"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(music) A tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipe organ."
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "13 34 39 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1645, John Milton, “At a Solemn Musick”, in Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin",
"text": "That we on Earth with undiscording voice\nMay rightly answer that melodious noise;\nAs once we did, till disproportion'd sin\nJarr'd against natures chime, and with harsh din\nBroke the fair musick that all creatures made\nTo their great Lord, whose love their motion sway'd\nIn perfect Diapason, whilst they stood\nIn first obedience, and their state of good.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1961, Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case",
"text": "he could hear nothing except the rattle of the crickets and the swelling diapason of the frogs […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A harmonious outpouring of sound."
],
"id": "en-diapason-en-noun-OWV1VVDD",
"links": [
[
"harmonious",
"harmonious"
],
[
"outpouring",
"outpouring"
],
[
"sound",
"sound"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/daɪəˈpeɪzən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/daɪəˈpeɪsən/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪzən"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪsən"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-diapason.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-diapason.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-diapason.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-diapason.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-diapason.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "diapason"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 4-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Latin",
"English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:English/eɪsən",
"Rhymes:English/eɪsən/4 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/eɪzən",
"Rhymes:English/eɪzən/4 syllables"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "disdiapason"
},
{
"word": "open diapason"
},
{
"word": "semidiapason"
},
{
"word": "tridiapason"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "diapason"
},
"expansion": "Latin diapason",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "διαπασῶν"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek διαπασῶν (diapasôn)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "διά",
"gloss": "through"
},
"expansion": "διά (diá, “through”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "πᾶς",
"3": "πασῶν",
"gloss": "all"
},
"expansion": "πασῶν (pasôn, “all”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "χορδή",
"3": "χορδῶν",
"gloss": "notes"
},
"expansion": "χορδῶν (khordôn, “notes”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin diapason, from Ancient Greek διαπασῶν (diapasôn), that is διά (diá, “through”) + πασῶν (pasôn, “all”) (χορδῶν (khordôn, “notes”)), “through all (notes)”.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "diapasons",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "diapason (plural diapasons)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Music"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1818, Iamblichus, translated by Thomas Taylor, Life of Pythagoras, page 328",
"text": "2 to 1, which is a duple ratio, forms the [symphony] diapason",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The musical octave."
],
"links": [
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"octave",
"octave"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(music) The musical octave."
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English literary terms"
],
"glosses": [
"The range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument."
],
"links": [
[
"range",
"range"
],
[
"scope",
"scope"
],
[
"note",
"note"
],
[
"scale",
"scale"
],
[
"instrument",
"instrument"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension, literary) The range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "range"
},
{
"word": "scope"
}
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"literary"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Musical instruments"
],
"glosses": [
"A tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipe organ."
],
"links": [
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"flue pipe",
"flue pipe"
],
[
"pipe organ",
"pipe organ"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(music) A tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipe organ."
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1645, John Milton, “At a Solemn Musick”, in Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin",
"text": "That we on Earth with undiscording voice\nMay rightly answer that melodious noise;\nAs once we did, till disproportion'd sin\nJarr'd against natures chime, and with harsh din\nBroke the fair musick that all creatures made\nTo their great Lord, whose love their motion sway'd\nIn perfect Diapason, whilst they stood\nIn first obedience, and their state of good.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1961, Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case",
"text": "he could hear nothing except the rattle of the crickets and the swelling diapason of the frogs […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A harmonious outpouring of sound."
],
"links": [
[
"harmonious",
"harmonious"
],
[
"outpouring",
"outpouring"
],
[
"sound",
"sound"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/daɪəˈpeɪzən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/daɪəˈpeɪsən/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪzən"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪsən"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-diapason.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-diapason.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-diapason.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-diapason.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-diapason.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "diapazón",
"sense": "the range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument",
"word": "диапазо́н"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "the range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "дијапазон"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "the range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "dijapazon"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "diapazón",
"sense": "the range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "діапазо́н"
}
],
"word": "diapason"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.