symphonia

See also: Symphonia

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σῠμφωνῐ́ᾱ (sŭmphōnĭ́ā). Doublet of sinfonia, symphony, tsampouna, and zampogna. By surface analysis, sym- +‎ -phonia.

Noun

symphonia (countable and uncountable, plural symphonias)

1. (music) Concord in Ancient Greek music.
2. (obsolete) The bagpipe.
3. (obsolete) The virginal.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σῠμφωνῐ́ᾱ (sŭmphōnĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [symˈpʰoː.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [simˈfɔː.ni.a]

Noun

symphōnia f (genitive symphōniae); first declension

1. an agreement of sounds; a harmony, symphony
2. a kind of musical instrument

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	symphōnia	symphōniae
genitive	symphōniae	symphōniārum
dative	symphōniae	symphōniīs
accusative	symphōniam	symphōniās
ablative	symphōniā	symphōniīs
vocative	symphōnia	symphōniae

Descendants

• Inherited:
  • >? Galician: chanfaina
  • Italian: zampogna
    • → English: zampogna
    • → Greek: τσαμπούνα (tsampoúna)
      • → English: tsampouna
  • Old Spanish: çanpoña
    • Spanish: zampoña
  • Piedmontese: ciamporgna
  • Portuguese: sanfona, sanfonha
  • >? Romanian: cimpoi, cimpoaie
    • →? Hungarian: csimpolya
  • Romansh: zampuogn
  • Spanish: zampoña
• Borrowed:
  • → Catalan: simfonia
  • → Czech: symfonie
  • → Dutch: symfonie
    • → Indonesian: simfoni
  • → Esperanto: simfonio
  • → Finnish: sinfonia
  • → Galician: zanfona, zanfoña (semi-learned)
  • → German: Symphonie
    • → Hungarian: szimfónia
    • → Serbo-Croatian: sìmfōnija / сѝмфо̄нија
  • → Hunsrik: Sinfonie
  • → Italian: sinfonia
    • → English: sinfonia
    • → Finnish: sinfonia (possibly)
    • → German: Sinfonie
    • → Icelandic: sinfónía
  • → Old French: simphonie, sinfonie
    • French: symphonie, chifonie (see there for further descendants)
    • → Middle English: symphonye (see there for further descendants)
  • → Old Norse: symfonie, imfon, sinfon
    • Danish: symfoni
  • → Polish: symfonia
  • → Portuguese: sinfonia
  • → Romanian: simfonie
  • → Spanish: sinfonía
  • → Translingual: Symphonia

References

• “symphonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “symphonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "symphonia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “symphonia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “symphonia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “symphonia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin