psalterion

Borrowed from Middle French psalterion, from Old French salterion, from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion), probably through Latin psalterium. Doublet of psalter, psalterium, and psaltery.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒlˈtɪəriɒn/, /sɔːlˈtɪəriɒn/, /-ən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɔlˈtɪriɑn/, /sɑlˈtɪriɑn/, /-ən/

psalterion (plural psalterions)

1. (now historical, rare) Synonym of psaltery
   • 1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The thirde boke”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] ‎, London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, OCLC 715474564, folio vi, recto; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972:

     All ſubſtantiues endyng in on, hauyng i cõmyng next befoꝛe on, be of tbe femyne gendꝛe: Excepte Millyón a myllion / eſcorpión a ſcoꝛpyon a ſarpent / ueſpilión a holy water ſpꝛicle^[sic] / eſtovrgión a ſturgion fiſhe / psalterión a psaltrion […]

   • 1864, William Sandys; Simon Andrew Forster, chapter II, in The History of the Violin […] ‎, London: William Reeves, OCLC 1353549, page 21:

     Notker, in the ninth century, says that the rotta (or chrotta) was derived from the psalterion — the ancient psalterion, as he even at that early time calls it.

   • 2017 October 19, Everett Ferguson, “The Active and Contemplative Lives: The Patristic Interpretation of Some Musical Terms”, in The Early Church at Work and Worship, volume 3: Worship, Eucharist, Music, and Gregory of Nyssa, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 141:

     The interpretation of the kithara as the lower part of a human being and a psalterion as the higher appears to derive from Origen.

Borrowed from French psaltérion, from Middle French psalterion, from Old French salterion, from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion), probably through Latin psalterium.

psalterion n (plural psalterioane)

1. psaltery