salmo
Esperanto
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Etymology
From Latin salmō. Compare German Salm, Italian salmone, French saumon, Arabic سلمون (salmōn, salamōn), Japanese サーモン (sāmon).
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): [ˈsalmo]
- Rhymes: -almo
- Hyphenation: sal‧mo
Noun
salmo (accusative singular salmon, plural salmoj, accusative plural salmojn)
- salmon
Derived terms
- atlantika salmo (“Atlantic salmon”)
- salmaĵo (“salmon (meat”)
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): /ˈsal.mo/
- Rhymes: -almo
- Hyphenation: sàl‧mo
Noun
salmo m (plural salmi)
- psalm
Related terms
- salmeggiare
Anagrams
- slamo, slamò
Latin
Etymology
Unknown, possibly from a Celtic/Gaulish word; the common derivation from saliō (“to leap”) has been dismissed as folk etymology. An equation with Proto-Slavic *sòmъ (“catfish”) by Preobraženskij has not been well-received by succeeding Slavists; neither is Finnish sampi (“sturgeon”) likely related.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsal.moː/, [ˈs̠äɫ̪moː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsal.mo/, [ˈsälmo]
Noun
salmō m (genitive salmōnis); third declension
- 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
- Catalan: salmó
- Old French: saumon
- Middle English: samoun, samon, samone, samun, saumon, salmon, sawmun, samwn, samown, sawmoun, samen
- English: salmon
- → Burmese: ဆယ်လမွန် (hcaila.mwan)
- → Hebrew: סַלְמוֹן (sálmon)
- → Hindi: सामन (sāman)
- Scots: saumon, sawmon
- Yola: zamoon
- English: salmon
- French: saumon
- Haitian Creole: somon
- → Romanian: somon
- → Turkish: somon
- Middle English: samoun, samon, samone, samun, saumon, salmon, sawmun, samwn, samown, sawmoun, samen
- Galician: salmón
- Italian: salmone
- Occitan: salmon, saumon
- Portuguese: salmão
- Spanish: salmón
- → Arabic: سلمون (salmōn, salamōn)
- → Dutch: zalm
- → Esperanto: salmo
- → Ido: salmono
- → Indonesian: salmon
- → Interlingua: salmon
- → Malay: salmon
- → Old High German: salmo
- German: Salm
- → 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
- Preobraženskij, A. G. (1910–1914), “salmo”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Tipografija G. Lissnera i D. Sovko, page 355a
- Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
Old High German
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin salmō.
Noun
salmo m
- salmon
Descendants
- German: Salm
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- psalmo (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old 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, “to pluck an instrument”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsaw.mu/ [ˈsaʊ̯.mu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsaw.mo/ [ˈsaʊ̯.mo]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsal.mu/ [ˈsaɫ.mu]
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -almu, (Brazil) -awmu
- Hyphenation: sal‧mo
Noun
salmo m (plural salmos)
- psalm
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, “to pluck an instrument”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsalmo/ [ˈsal.mo]
- Rhymes: -almo
- Syllabification: sal‧mo
Noun
salmo m (plural salmos)
- psalm
Derived terms
- salmo responsorial
Related terms
- salmodia
- salterio
Descendants
- → Classical Nahuatl: psalmo
- → Tagalog: salmo
Further reading
- “salmo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish salmo.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sal‧mo
- IPA(key): /ˈsalmo/, [ˈsal.mo]
Noun
salmo
- psalm; hymn
- Synonyms: dalit, awit, imno
Related terms
- salmista