symphonia

See also: Symphonia

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σῠμφωνῐ́ᾱ (sŭmphōnĭ́ā). Doublet of sinfonia, symphony, tsampouna, and zampogna.

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

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

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’s 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