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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ψάλλω (psállō, “to pluck, twitch”). Attested as a gloss in Hesychius.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /psál.tiŋks/ → /ˈpsal.tiŋks/ → /ˈpsal.tiŋks/
Noun
ψᾰ́λτῐγξ • (psáltinx) f (genitive ψᾰ́λτῐγγος); third declension
- lyre
- Synonym: κιθάρα (kithára)
Inflection
- ψαλτήρ (psaltḗr, “lyre-player, stringed instrument”)
- ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion, “stringed instrument, harp”)
- ψάλτης (psáltēs, “lyre-player”)
- ψάλτρια (psáltria, “female lyre-player”)
Further reading
- Hesychius' Lexicon: ψ
- “ψάλτιγξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “ψάλτιγξ”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- “ψάλτιγξ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011