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Wikispecies

Etymology

Latin salmo ‎(“salmon”)

Proper noun

Salmo m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Salmonidae – the Atlantic salmon and trout.

See also

• See Wikipedia for species

English

Proper noun

Salmo

1. A village in British Columbia, Canada.

Esperanto

atlantika salmo

Noun

salmo ‎(accusative singular salmon, plural salmoj, accusative plural salmojn)

1. salmon

Related terms

• atlantika salmo

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): /ˈsälmo/

Noun

salmo m ‎(plural salmi)

1. psalm

Related terms

• salmeggiare

Latin

Etymology

Either from Celtic or from salīre ‎(“to leap”), though this has been dismissed as folk etymology.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.moː/, [ˈsaɫ.moː]

Noun

salmō m ‎(genitive salmōnis); third declension

1. salmon

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

References

• salmo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “salmo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Old High German

Etymology

From Latin salmō.

Noun

salmo m

1. 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, “I pluck an instrument”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsaw.mu/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɫ.mu/
• Hyphenation: sal‧mo
• Rhymes: -awmu

Noun

salmo m (plural salmos)

1. 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, “I pluck an instrument”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsal.mo/

Noun

salmo m ‎(plural salmos)

1. psalm

Related terms

• salmodia
• salterio