psalterium - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Learned borrowing from Latin psalterium, from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion). Doublet of psalter, psalterion, and psaltery.
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɒlˈtɪəriəm/, /sɔːlˈtɪəriəm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sɔlˈtɪriəm/, /sɑlˈtɪriəm/
- Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm
psalterium (plural psalteria)
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion).
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /psalˈteː.ri.um/, [ps̠äɫ̪ˈt̪eːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /psalˈte.ri.um/, [psäl̪ˈt̪ɛːrium]
psaltērium n (genitive psaltēriī or psaltērī); second declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
- Old French: saltier, sautier
- → Catalan: saltiri
- → Old French: psaltrie, salterie, salterii, sauterye, sautrie, sautyre
- → Old French: salterion, sarterion, saterion (learned)
- Middle French: psalterion
- French: psaltérion
- → Romanian: psalterion
- French: psaltérion
- → English: psalterion
- Middle French: psalterion
- → Italian: salterio
- → Old Occitan: salteri
- Occitan: psaltèri
- → English: psalterium (learned)
- → Proto-West Germanic: *psalterī (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Irish: saltair (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle Welsh: sallwyr
- “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