psalterium

English

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

psalterium (plural psalteria)

omasum — see omasum

zither-like instrument

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion).

psaltērium n (genitive psaltēriī or psaltērī); second declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

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: salterio
- → Portuguese: saltério
→ 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

“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