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Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Latin psalterium, from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion). Doublet of psalter, psalterion, and psaltery.

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Noun edit

psalterium (plural psalteria)

  1. An omasum.
  2. A psaltery (zither-like musical instrument)

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

psaltērium n (genitive psaltēriī or psaltērī); second declension

  1. (music) lute or psaltery

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative psaltērium psaltēria
Genitive psaltēriī
psaltērī1
psaltēriōrum
Dative psaltēriō psaltēriīs
Accusative psaltērium psaltēria
Ablative psaltēriō psaltēriīs
Vocative psaltērium psaltēria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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References edit

  • psalterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • psalterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • psalterium 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)
  • psalterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • psalterium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers