psalterium

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

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

psalterium (plural psalteria)

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

• psalterial

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion).

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

psaltērium n (genitive psaltēriī or psaltērī); second declension

1. (music) lute or psaltery

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “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