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sticherarion

sticherarion noun: a hymnbook containing the stichera for the morning and evening services throughout the year.

Noun

sticherarion (plural sticheraria)

  1. A hymnbook containing the stichera for the morning and evening services throughout the year.
    • On the margins of the sticherarion, the writer has made a number of remarkable notations of a chronological and mundane nature.1984, Henrik Birnbaum, Medieval Russian Culture, page 61

Forms of sticherarion

pluralsticheraria

Origin of sticherarion

From Greek στιχηράριο (stichirário), from στιχηρά (stichirá), ultimately from Ancient Greek στίχος (stíkhos).

Questions about sticherarion

What does sticherarion mean?
Sticherarion means a hymnbook containing the stichera for the morning and evening services throughout the year.
What part of speech is sticherarion?
Sticherarion is a noun.
What is the plural of sticherarion?
The plural of sticherarion is sticheraria.

Words near sticherarion in the dictionary

  1. stichasterids
  2. stiched
  3. stichera
  4. sticheraria
  5. sticheraric
  6. sticherarion
  7. sticheron
  8. sticherons
  9. stichic
  10. stichid
  11. stichidia

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