psaume
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French psaulme, from Old French psalme, salme, borrowed from Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós). The p- was silent well into Modern French, but later came to be pronounced by analogy with learned words with ps- which had since been borrowed from Greek.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
psaume m (plural psaumes)
- psalm (all senses)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “psaume”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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