symphonia

symphonia

See also: Symphonia

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σῠμφωνῐ́ᾱ (sumphōníā). 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.

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek συμφωνία (sumphōnía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /symˈpʰoː.ni.a/, [s̠ʏmˈpʰoːniä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /simˈfo.ni.a/, [simˈfɔːniä]

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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	symphōnia	symphōniae
Genitive	symphōniae	symphōniārum
Dative	symphōniae	symphōniīs
Accusative	symphōniam	symphōniās
Ablative	symphōniā	symphōniīs
Vocative	symphōnia	symphōniae

Descendants

• Catalan: simfonia
• → Czech: symfonie
• → Dutch: symfonie
• → Esperanto: simfonio
• → Finnish: sinfonia
• Galician: zanfona; chanfaina
• → German: Sinfonie, Symphonie
• → Hunsrik: Sinfonie
• Italian: zampogna; → sinfonia
  • → English: zampogna; → sinfonia
  • → Greek: τσαμπούνα (tsampoúna)
    • → English: tsampouna
  • → Spanish: zampoña
• Old French: simphonie, sinfonie
  • French: symphonie, chifonie
  • → Middle English: symphonye, simphonie, symphonie, simphonia, synphonie, synphonye, symphanye, cymphanie, sinfanye
    • English: symphony
• → Old Norse: symfonie, imfon, sinfon
  • Danish: symfoni
• → Polish: symfonia
• Portuguese: sanfona, sanfonha; → sinfonia

>? Romanian: cimpoi, cimpoaie; → simfonie (also via French)

• Spanish: zanfonía → 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