psalmus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpsal.mus/, [ˈps̠äɫ̪mʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpsal.mus/, [ˈpsälmus]

Noun

psalmus m (genitive psalmī); second declension

1. psalm

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	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
  • Portuguese: salmo (obsolete psalmo)
• Old Spanish: psalmo
  • Spanish: salmo (obsolete psalmo)
    • → Classical Nahuatl: psalmo
    • → Tagalog: salmo
• → Old English: psealm, psalm, sealm
  • Middle English: salm, psalm, psalme, psame, salme, saulm, saume, spalme, sallme, sealm, selm (Early Middle English)
    • English: psalm
    • Scots: saum, sawm
    • → Middle Welsh: salm
      • Welsh: salm
• → Old High German: psalmo, salm, salmo
  • Middle High German: psalme, salm, salme
    • German: Psalm
• → Italian: salmo
• → Old Norse: salmr
  • Icelandic: psálmur
  • Old Swedish: salmber
    • Swedish: psalm
  • Old Danish: salm
    • Danish: salme
      • Norwegian Bokmål: salme
        • → Norwegian Nynorsk: salme
• → 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.