salmo

See also: Salmo and salmó

Esperanto

atlantika salmo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalmo/

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• Hyphenation: sal‧mo

Noun

salmo (accusative singular salmon, plural salmoj, accusative plural salmojn)

1. salmon

Related terms

• atlantika salmo

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Italian

Alternative forms

• psalmo (obsolete)

Etymology

From Late Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós, “song sung to a harp, performance on a stringed instrument”), from ψάλλω (psállō, “I pluck an instrument”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsalmo/

Noun

salmo m (plural salmi)

1. psalm

Related terms

• salmeggiare

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Latin

Etymology

Either from Celtic or from saliō (“to leap”), though this has been dismissed as folk etymology.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.moː/, [ˈs̠äɫ̪moː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.mo/, [ˈsälmo]

Noun

salmō m (genitive salmōnis); third declension

1. salmon

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	salmō	salmōnēs
Genitive	salmōnis	salmōnum
Dative	salmōnī	salmōnibus
Accusative	salmōnem	salmōnēs
Ablative	salmōne	salmōnibus
Vocative	salmō	salmōnēs

Descendants

• Arabic: سلمون (salmōn, salamōn)
• Catalan: salmó
• Dutch: zalm
• English: salmon
• Esperanto: salmo
• French: saumon
• Galician: salmón
• German: Salm
• Haitian Creole: somon
• Ido: salmono
• Indonesian: salmon
• Interlingua: salmon
• Italian: salmone
• Malay: salmon
• Occitan: salmon, saumon
• Old High German: salmo
• Portuguese: salmão
• Romanian: somon
• Spanish: salmón
• Turkish: somon
• Volapük: salm
• West Frisian: salm

Further reading

• “salmo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• salmo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Old High German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin salmō.

Noun

salmo m

1. salmon

Descendants

• German: Salm

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• psalmo (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese salmo, psalmo, from Late Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós, “song sung to a harp, performance on a stringed instrument”), from ψάλλω (psállō, “I pluck an instrument”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaw.mu/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɫ.mu/
• Hyphenation: sal‧mo
• Rhymes: -awmu

Noun

salmo m (plural salmos)

1. psalm

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• psalmo (obsolete)

Etymology

From Late Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós, “song sung to a harp, performance on a stringed instrument”), from ψάλλω (psállō, “I pluck an instrument”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalmo/ [ˈsal.mo]

Noun

salmo m (plural salmos)

1. psalm

Related terms

• salmodia
• salterio

Further reading

• “salmo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014