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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): [psaɫˈteː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [psalˈtɛː.ri.um]

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).

• 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, 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