psalmody

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin psalmōdia, from Koine Greek ψαλμῳδίᾱ (psalmōidíā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑː.mə.di/

Noun

psalmody (countable and uncountable, plural psalmodies)

1. (music, uncountable) The singing or the writing of psalms.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 3:

     All these strange antics were accompanied by still stranger guttural noises from the devotee, who seemed to be praying in a sing-song or else singing some pagan psalmody or other, during which his face twitched about in the most unnatural manner.

2. (music, countable) A collection of psalms.

Related terms

• psalmodist

Translations

singing of psalms

• Finnish: virren veisuu, veisuu, veisaaminen (fi); psalmilaulu
• French: psalmodie (fr) f
• Greek: ψαλμωδία (el) f (psalmodía)
• Hungarian: zsoltáréneklés
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• Manx: saumeydys, saumeyraght
• Polish: psalmodia (pl) f
• Spanish: salmodia (es)
• Welsh: salmyddiaeth f

collection of psalms

• Finnish: virsikirja (fi); psalmikokoelma
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• Hungarian: zsoltároskönyv (hu), zsoltárkönyv

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• Italian: ^{(please verify)} salmodia (it) f (1)
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Verb

psalmody (third-person singular simple present psalmodies, present participle psalmodying, simple past and past participle psalmodied)

1. To celebrate in psalms.