diezeugmenon

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noun

The last tetrachord, in the case where two tetrachords were placed separately from each other, but with only the interval of a tone between them.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

noundiezeugmenon (plural diezeugmena)

plural diezeugmena

  1. entertainmentThe last tetrachord, in the case where two tetrachords were placed separately from each other, but with only the interval of a tone between them.
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    1914, Vitruvius (translated by Morris Hicky Morgan), Ten Books on Architecture In the middle range, place first at the extreme ends the vessels which give the note of the chromatic hyperbolaeon; next to them, those which give the chromatic diezeugmenon, a fourth below; third, the chromatic synhemmenon; fourth, the chromatic meson, a fourth below; fifth, the chromatic hypaton, a fourth below; sixth, the paramese, for this is both the concord of the fifth to the chromatic hyperbolaeon, and the concord of the chro­matic synhemmenon.

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekδιεζευγμένων“of the transposed (notes)”
  2. Englishdiezeugmenon

From Ancient Greek διεζευγμένων (diezeugménōn, “of the transposed (notes)”), aorist passive participle of διαζεύγνυμι (diazeúgnumi), from ζεύγνυμι (zeúgnumi).

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APA

diezeugmenon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diezeugmenon

MLA

“diezeugmenon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diezeugmenon. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “diezeugmenon,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diezeugmenon.

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