sticherarion

English

Etymology

From Greek στιχηράριο (stichirário), from στιχηρά (stichirá), ultimately from Ancient Greek στίχος (stíkhos).

Noun

sticherarion (plural sticheraria)

1. A hymnbook containing the stichera for the morning and evening services throughout the year.
   • 1984, Henrik Birnbaum, Medieval Russian Culture, page 61:

     On the margins of the sticherarion, the writer has made a number of remarkable notations of a chronological and mundane nature.

Related terms

• sticheron

Anagrams

• rhetoricians