psalmus
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpsaɫ.mʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpsal.mus]
Noun
psalmus m (genitive psalmī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | psalmus | psalmī |
| genitive | psalmī | psalmōrum |
| dative | psalmō | psalmīs |
| accusative | psalmum | psalmōs |
| ablative | psalmō | psalmīs |
| vocative | psalme | psalmī |
Synonyms
- (psalm): psalma n
Related terms
- psallo
- psalmicen
- psalmidicus
- psalmista
- psalmistatusla
- psalmizo
- psalmocanticum
- psalmodia
- psalmodio
- psalmographus
- psalterista
- psalterium
Descendants
- Old French: salme, saume
- French: psaume
- Norman: sieaume
- Old Occitan: salm, salme
- Occitan: psalm
- Old Galician-Portuguese: psalmo, salmo
- Old Spanish: psalmo
- → Old English: psealm, psalm, sealm
- → Old High German: psalmo, salm, salmo
- → Italian: salmo
- → Old Norse: salmr
- → Piedmontese: salm
- → Sicilian: salmu
- Salentine: sarmu
References
- “psalmus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "psalmus", 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)
- psalmus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.