diatonus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

dĭătŏnus, a, um, adj., = διάτονος (extended).

I In architecture: lateres, band-stones, which run through the thickness of a wall and bind it together , Vitr. 2, 8, 7.—

II In music: diatonum , i, the natural or diatonic series of notes without breaks or intervals, the diatonic scale , Vitr. 5, 4, 3 sq.; Macr. Somn. Scip. 2, 4.