different between psalter vs psalm

English

Alternative forms

• sauter (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sauter, psauter, from Old French sautier, psaltier, from Latin psalterium (“a stringed instrument like a lute”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (psalt?rion, “a harp”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??lt?(?)/
• Rhymes: -??lt?(?)
• Homophone: salter

Noun

psalter (plural psalters)

1. The Book of Psalms. Often applied to a book containing the Psalms separately printed.
2. Specifically for Anglicans, the Book of Common Prayer which contains the Book of Psalms. For Catholics, the Breviary containing the Psalms arranged for each day of the week.
3. In the Roman Catholic Church, a rosary consisting of one hundred and fifty beads, corresponding to the number of the Psalms.
4. (obsolete or rare) psaltery (the musical instrument).
   • 1635, John Cousturier, The second tome of the Holie Bible, Psalm 32:2, page 66:

     Confesse ye to our Lord on the harpe: on a psalter of ten strings sing to him.

   • 1849, Sir John Graham Dalyell, Musical Memoirs of Scotland, T. Constable, page 206:

     Perhaps the viol d'amour underwent several modifications, as its name was changed to psalter in the belief of its being the ancient instrument so denominated, which is quite different, according to most authorities — not belonging to the fidicinal tribe.

   • 1875, Edward H. Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, J. B. Ford and Company, page 1499:

     Some have supposed that the psalter was not in fact an instrument, but that the term was applied merely to harmony produced by the voice in conjunction with instruments.

Related terms

• psaltery

Translations

See also

• psalter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Alperts, Plaster, Platers, palster, palters, persalt, plaster, plastre, platers, replats, stapler

English

Etymology

From Middle English salm or psalme, from Old English psealm, later reinforced from Old French psalme (modern French psaume), both from Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (psalmós, “the sound emanating from twitching or twanging perhaps with the hands or fingers, mostly of musical strings”) (from ????? (psáll?, “to make a sound by striking, touching, plucking, rubbing, twanging, or vibrating”)), but later in New Testament times the meaning of ?????? (psalmós) evolved from its Classical meaning of "a tune played to the harp" to a more general tune that could be played with any instrument; even a song sung with or without musical accompaniment. By the Byzantine Period, it lost all of its instrumental nuances.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /s?m/, /s?lm/
• Rhymes: -??m

Noun

psalm (plural psalms)

1. (religion, music) A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
2. One of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship.

Derived terms

• psalmist
• psalmodic
• psalmody
• Psalms (name of the book of the Bible in which the psalms are collected)

Related terms

• psalter

Translations

Verb

psalm (third-person singular simple present psalms, present participle psalming, simple past and past participle psalmed)

1. To extol in psalms; to make music; to sing

   to psalm his praises.

   • 2012, George D. Manjounes, Good Morning, Morning Glory

     I psalmed like a Moslem high in his mosque. And like a Greek priest, I sang the divine liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.

Translations

Anagrams

• Lamps, Palms, lamps, palms, plasm

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

psalm m (plural psalmen, diminutive psalmpje n)

1. (music) psalm

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /psalm/

Noun

psalm m inan

1. (music) psalm

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic ?????? (psal?m?), from Ancient Greek ?????? (psalmós)

Noun

psalm m (plural psalmi)

1. psalm

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse salmr, psalmr, from Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (psalmós, “the sound emenating from twitching or twanging perhaps with the hands or fingers, mostly of musical strings”).

Noun

psalm c

1. a hymn, a church song
2. a psalm of David, one of the chapters of the book of Psalms

Usage notes

• Denominations in Sweden outside of the Church of Sweden (e.g. baptists) have traditionally not used the word psalm, but rather visa, sång (song). Recent integrated hymnbooks are titled Psalmer och visor (1976) and Psalmer och Sånger (1987) to indicated that they cover both the Church of Sweden and other denominations.

Declension

Anagrams

• Palms, palms