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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
Noun
psaume m (plural psaumes)
- psalm (all senses)
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