psalterium

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin psalterium, from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion). Doublet of psalter, psalterion, and psaltery.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒlˈtɪəriəm/, /sɔːlˈtɪəriəm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɔlˈtɪriəm/, /sɑlˈtɪriəm/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm

Noun

psalterium (plural psalteria)

1. An omasum.
2. A psaltery (zither-like musical instrument)

Derived terms

• psalterial

Translations

omasum — see omasum

zither-like instrument

• Catalan: tamborí de cordes (ca) m
• French: tambourin à cordes (fr) m

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /psalˈteː.ri.um/, [ps̠äɫ̪ˈt̪eːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /psalˈte.ri.um/, [psäl̪ˈt̪ɛːrium]

Noun

psaltērium n (genitive psaltēriī or psaltērī); second declension

1. (music) lute or psaltery

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	psaltērium	psaltēria
Genitive	psaltēriī psaltērī1	psaltēriōrum
Dative	psaltēriō	psaltēriīs
Accusative	psaltērium	psaltēria
Ablative	psaltēriō	psaltēriīs
Vocative	psaltērium	psaltēria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Old French: saltier, sautier
  • Middle French: psautier, sautier
    • French: psautier
  • → Middle Dutch: souter
  • → Middle English: sauter
    • English: psalter
• → Catalan: saltiri
• → Old French: psaltrie, salterie, salterii, sauterye, sautrie, sautyre
  • → Middle High German: salterie, psalterie
    • German: Psalterie (obsolete)
  • → Middle Dutch: salterie, psalterie
  • → Middle English: sauterie
    • English: psaltery
• → Old French: salterion, sarterion, saterion (learned)
  • Middle French: psalterion
    • French: psaltérion
      • → Romanian: psalterion
  • → English: psalterion
• → Italian: salterio
  • → Spanish: saltério
  • → Portuguese: 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
  • Welsh: sallwyr
  • ⇒ Middle Welsh: llaswyr
    • Welsh: llaswyr

References

• “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