symphonia

From Ancient Greek σῠμφωνῐ́ᾱ (sumphōníā). Doublet of sinfonia, symphony, tsampouna, and zampogna.

symphonia (countable and uncountable, plural symphonias)

1. (music) Concord in Ancient Greek music.
2. (obsolete) The bagpipe.
3. (obsolete) The virginal.

From Ancient Greek συμφωνία (sumphōnía).

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

symphōnia f (genitive symphōniae); first declension

1. an agreement of sounds; a harmony, symphony
2. a kind of musical instrument

First-declension noun.

• “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