psalterion
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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 |
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