diatessaron

From Latin , from Ancient Greek διά (diá, “through, across”) + τεσσάρων (tessárōn) (genitive plural of τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”)).

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.

• Monotessaron
• diapason
• diapente

• “diatessaron”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• diarsonates

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

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

diatessarōn n (indeclinable)

1. (music) a fourth
2. a medicine made of four ingredients.

• diapāsōn
• diapente

• “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.