Contakionn.

Etymology: < medieval Greek κοντάκιον, in sense 1 taken to mean ‘roll, scroll’, being diminutive of κόνταξ shaft, itself diminutive of κοντός ‘shaft, pole’, also ‘a wooden roll round which a manuscript was rolled’ ( Dict. Christian Antiq.). In sense 2, identified with the same word by the legend which tells how Romanus was inspired to compose these hymns by the eating of a roll or scroll (κοντάκιον); but some think this merely a popular etymology, and would connect the name with κοντός short; others have suggested a corruption of Latin canticum song.