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)
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σῠμφωνῐ́ᾱ (sŭmphōnĭ́ā).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [symˈpʰoː.ni.a]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [simˈfɔː.ni.a]
Noun
symphōnia f (genitive symphōniae); first declension
- an agreement of sounds; a harmony, symphony
- 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
- Inherited:
- Borrowed:
- → Catalan: simfonia
- → Czech: symfonie
- → Dutch: symfonie
- → Indonesian: simfoni
- → Esperanto: simfonio
- → Finnish: sinfonia
- → Galician: zanfona, zanfoña (semi-learned)
- → German: Symphonie
- → Hungarian: szimfónia
- → Serbo-Croatian: sìmfōnija / сѝмфо̄нија
- → Hunsrik: Sinfonie
- → Italian: sinfonia
- → Old French: simphonie, sinfonie
- → Old Norse: symfonie, imfon, sinfon
- Danish: symfoni
- → Polish: symfonia
- → Portuguese: sinfonia
- → Romanian: simfonie
- → Spanish: sinfonía
- → Translingual: Symphonia
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