kontakion

English

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κοντάκιον (kontákion).

kontakion (plural kontakia)

(Eastern Orthodoxy) A form of hymn or poem recited as a dialogue between a chanter and the choir.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 454:
  The liturgical form of hymn which replaced the kontakion was the canon, a set of nine hymns.
- 1988, Christina Pribićević-Zorić, translating Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage 1989, p. 31:
  When awakened, Kyr Avram sits in bed and, as if out of fear, sings troparia and contakia in honor of his ancestors, when the Serbian church has declared saints.

单词	kontakion
释义	kontakion English Etymology Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κοντάκιον (kontákion). Noun kontakion (plural kontakia) (Eastern Orthodoxy) A form of hymn or poem recited as a dialogue between a chanter and the choir. 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 454: The liturgical form of hymn which replaced the kontakion was the canon, a set of nine hymns. 1988, Christina Pribićević-Zorić, translating Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage 1989, p. 31: When awakened, Kyr Avram sits in bed and, as if out of fear, sings troparia and contakia in honor of his ancestors, when the Serbian church has declared saints. Alternative forms contakion
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