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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σῠμφωνῐ́ᾱ (sumphōníā). Doublet of sinfonia, symphony, tsampouna, and zampogna.
Noun
symphonia (countable and uncountable, plural symphonias)
- (music) Concord in Ancient Greek music.
- (obsolete) The bagpipe.
- (obsolete) The virginal.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek συμφωνία (sumphōnía).
Pronunciation
Noun
symphōnia f (genitive symphōniae); first declension
- an agreement of sounds; a harmony, symphony
- a kind of musical instrument
Declension
First-declension noun.
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