psaume

French

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /psom/

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Noun

psaume m (plural psaumes)

1. psalm (all senses)

Related terms

• psalmique
• psalmiste
• psalmodie
• psalmodier
• psaltérion
• psautier

 

Further reading

• “psaume”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.