psaume
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.