psalterion
See also: Garnison
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle French psalterion, from Old French salterion, from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion), probably through Latin psalterium. Doublet of psalter, psalterium, and psaltery.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɒlˈtɪəriɒn/, /sɔːlˈtɪəriɒn/, /-ən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sɔlˈtɪriɑn/, /sɑlˈtɪriɑn/, /-ən/
Noun edit
psalterion (plural psalterions)
- (now historical, rare) Synonym of psaltery
- 1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The thirde boke”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] [1], London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, folio vi, recto; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972:
- All ſubſtantiues endyng in on, hauyng i cõmyng next befoꝛe on, be of tbe femyne gendꝛe: Excepte Millyón a myllion / eſcorpión a ſcoꝛpyon a ſarpent / ueſpilión a holy water ſpꝛicle[sic] / eſtovrgión a ſturgion fiſhe / psalterión a psaltrion […]
- 2017 October 19, Everett Ferguson, “The Active and Contemplative Lives: The Patristic Interpretation of Some Musical Terms”, in The Early Church at Work and Worship, volumes 3: Worship, Eucharist, Music, and Gregory of Nyssa, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 141:
- The interpretation of the kithara as the lower part of a human being and a psalterion as the higher appears to derive from Origen.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French psaltérion, from Middle French psalterion, from Old French salterion, from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion), probably through Latin psalterium.
Noun edit
psalterion n (plural psalterioane)
Declension edit
Declension of psalterion
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) psalterion | psalterionul | (niște) psalterioane | psalterioanele |
genitive/dative | (unui) psalterion | psalterionului | (unor) psalterioane | psalterioanelor |
vocative | psalterionule | psalterioanelor |