psalterion
See also: Garnison
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed 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
editpsalterion (plural psalterions)
- (now historical, rare) Synonym of psaltery
- 1530 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e., John Palsgrave], “To Know the Gendre of All Substantyues Endyng in N”, in Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝ […], [London]: […] [Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, 3rd boke, folio vi, recto; reprinted Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, October 1972, →OCLC:
- All ſubſtantiues endyng in on, hauyng i cõmyng next before on, be of tbe femyne gendre: Excepte Millyón a myllion⸝ eſcorpión a ſcorpyon a ſarpent⸝ ueſpilión a holy water ſpricle[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
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French psaltérion, from Middle French psalterion, from Old French salterion, from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion), probably through Latin psalterium.
Noun
editpsalterion n (plural psalterioane)
Declension
editDeclension 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 |
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