psi

Ancient Greek Alphabet

← chi		→ omega
Ψ ψ Ancient Greek: ψεῖ
Wikipedia article on psi

From Ancient Greek ψεῖ (pseî), the name for the twenty-third letter of the alphabet (Ψ, ψ).

Greek letter

• enPR: psī, sī, IPA^(key): /psaɪ/, /saɪ/

• Audio (US); “psi” (Greek letter):

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• Homophones: xi, sigh, scye, sai, Si (all for the latter pronunciation only)
• Rhymes: -aɪ

Psychic energy

• enPR: sī, IPA^(key): /saɪ/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophones: xi, sigh, scye, sai, Si
• Rhymes: -aɪ

psi (countable and uncountable, plural psis)

1. (countable) The twenty-third letter of Classical and Modern Greek and the twenty-fifth letter of Old and Ancient Greek.
2. (uncountable, parapsychology, science fiction) A form of psychic energy.
   • 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:

     ‘Come, lad,’ he said. ‘We will take tea together and speak of the noumenon, the psi and other more heterogenous phenomena.’

   • 1996, Michael F. Stoeber, Hugo Anthony Meynell, Critical Reflections on the Paranormal (page 60)

     When an event is classified as a psi phenomenon, it is claimed that all known channels for the apparent interaction have been eliminated.

   • 2005, Michael Ashley, Transformations: The History of the Science Fiction Magazine 1950 to 1970, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, page 133:

     It traces the growth of homo gestalt with the uniting of six lovely outcasts of society who have psi powers and come together as a hive mind, thus creating a gestalt super-being.

• psi function
• psi particle

• (Greek letter): Previous: chi, Next: omega

Initialism of pounds per square inch.

• P.S.I.
• PSI

psi

English Wikipedia has an article on:

psi

Wikipedia

1. Pounds per square inch (an imperial unit of pressure)

psia

• IPS, IPs, ISP, Isp, PIs, SIP, SPI, iPS, isp, pis, sip

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia)

psi f (plural psis)

1. Psi; the Greek letter Ψ (lowercase ψ)

• IPA^(key):

psi

1. nominative/vocative plural of pes

From Ancient Greek ψεῖ (pseî).

• IPA^(key): /psi/

• Audio:

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psi m or f (plural psi's, diminutive psi'tje n)

1. psi (letter of the Greek alphabet)

• psi on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

• IPA^(key): /psi/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: psy, psys

psi m (plural psi)

1. psi (Greek letter)

• “psi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• pis, spi

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

psi

Wikipedia ^it

• IPA^(key): /ˈpsi/^*
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: psì

psi m or f (invariable)

1. psi (Greek letter)

• spi

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

psi

Wikipedia ^pl

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьsьjь. By surface analysis, pies +‎ -i.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɕi/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: psi

psi (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (relational) canine, dog

   Synonyms: pieski, (archaic) sobaczy

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ψῖ (psî).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpsi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: psi

psi n (indeclinable)

1. psi (Greek letter Ψ, ψ)

Onomatopoeic

• (Masovia):
  • (Near Masovian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɕi/

psi

1. (Near Masovian, often repeated) used to call young dogs

   Coordinate term: a cucu

• psi in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• psi in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “psi”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 372

• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: psi

Derived from Ancient Greek ψεῖ (pseî)

psi m (plural psis)

1. (countable) psi (name of the Greek letter Ψ)

psi m or f by sense (plural psis)

1. (informal) Clipping of psicólogo.

• "psi", in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa , 2008-2024, https://dicionario.priberam.org/psi.

Borrowed from Greek ψι (psi).

psi m (plural psi)

1. psi

• IPA^(key):

psi m anim

1. nominative plural of pes

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: psi

psi f (plural psíes)

1. psi; the Greek letter Ψ, ψ

• “psi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10