prosodion
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek προσόδιον (prosódion), use as noun of neuter of Koine Greek προσόδιος (prosódios) (though apparently first attested later), from Ancient Greek πρόσοδος (prósodos, “procession”) + -ιος (-ios, adjectival suffix).[1]
Noun
[edit]prosodion (plural prosodia or prosodions)
- (Ancient Greece) A processional hymn.
- 1911, “Alcman”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., page 524:
- Alcman composed various kinds of poems in various metres; Parthenia (maidens’ songs), hymns, paeans, prosodia (processionals), and love-songs, of which he was considered the inventor.
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References
[edit]- ^ “prosodion, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
