psaltes

== English == === Etymology === Latin psaltēs === Noun === psaltes (plural psaltae) A Byzantine cantor. == Latin == === Alternative forms === psalta === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ψαλτής (psaltḗs, “harp-player”), from ψάλλω (psállō, “to pluck; to play the harp”). See psallō. === Noun === psaltēs m (genitive psaltae); first declension minstrel (player on the cithara) psalmist ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs). === References === “psaltes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “psaltes”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. psaltes in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016