diapason
pronunciation
How to pronounce diapason in British English:
UK [ˌdaɪəˈpeɪzən]
How to pronounce diapason in American English:
US [ˌdaɪəˈpezən, -sən]
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- Noun:
- either of the two main stops on a pipe organ
Word Origin
- diapason
- diapason: [14] Diapason, a musical term now used mainly for the main stops on an organ, and also metaphorically for ‘range, scope’ in general, originally meant literally ‘through all’. It comes, via Latin diapāsōn, from the Greek phrase hē dia pasōn khordon sumphonía ‘concord through all the notes’: dia means ‘through’, and pasōn is the feminine genitive plural of pas ‘all’ (as in the English prefix pan- ‘all’).
Example
- 1. The social value in diapason study that leisure sport .
- 2. But the electric guitar of automatic diapason .
- 3. With wide diapason and strong expression , especially to to play those melody with desolation , it likes a slight melancholy insetting the hearts .
- 4. Diapason : a full , rich outpouring of harmonious sound .
- 5. " Diapason : a full , rich outpouring of harmonious sound . "