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diapente

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

The interval of the fifth or the harmonic ratio 3:2.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

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noun

Meaning 2

A composition of five ingredients.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Topics: medicine, sciences

Examples

  • 1816, Race-horses, method of preparing for running, entry in Encyclopædia Perthensis, 2nd Edition, Volume 18, page 571, If the horse be in good flesh and spirits when taken up for its month′s preparation, the diapente must be omitted; and the chief business will be to give him good food, and so much exercise as will keep him in wind, without oversweating him or exhausting his spirits.

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History

Etymology

From Latin diapente, from Ancient Greek διά (diá, “through, across”) + πέντε (pénte, “five”).