diastema

dĭastēma (short ĕ, Sid. Carm. 15, 64), ătis, n., = διάστημα, space between, distance, interval (late Lat.).

• I In gen., Sid. Ep. 8, 11 med.—
• II Esp., in music, an interval, Mart. Cap. 9, § 948; Censor. 13.

diastēma, atis, n. (διάστημα), der Zwischenraum, Abstand, rein lat. distantia, intervallum, Sidon. epist. 8, 11, 9: in der Musik, das Intervall, Censor. 10, 11 u. 13, 5. Mart. Cap. 9. § 948. Chalcid. Tim. 44. Isid. 3, 19, 5. – ➳ Dat. Plur. heterokl. diastematis, Censor. 13, 1.

diastema [CL < διάστημα = space, distance] , degree, distinctiveness. b (mus.) ‘diastem’. sunt ‥ quedam specialia [officia], que variantur secundum diversitates temporum et distantiam sollempnitatum: ‥ secundum distantiam [PL reads: pro ~ate seu distantia] sollempnitatum ‥, in Pascha tres lectiones leguntur, in Natali novem Beleth RDO 18. 31.  b ad melodiam aut armoniam faciendam requiruntur †dyascema, dyesis, tonus ‥ et suavis vox‥. †dyascema dicitur ‘vocis spatium ex duobus vel pluribus sonis aptatum’ [Isid. Etym. III 20. 5] Bart. Angl. XIX 128.

dĭastēma, ătis, n. (διάστημα), distance, intervalle : Sid. Ep. 8, 11, 9 || intervalle [mus.] : Capel. 9, 948 || diastematis, dat. plur. : Censor. 13, 1.