# psyche
## English
### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin psychē, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”).

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: sī'kē, IPA: /ˈsaɪ.ki/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Noun

psyche (plural psyches)
* The human soul, mind, or spirit.
** 2022 January 28, Em Beihold, Nick Lopez, Dru DeCaro, “Numb Little Bug”, in Egg in the Backseat‎, performed by Em Beihold:I've been driving in L.A. / And the world, it feels too big / Like a floating ball that's bound to break / Snap my psyche like a twig
** 2023 November 20, Rory Carroll, Lisa O'Carroll, “‘It’s part of our psyche’: why Ireland sides with ‘underdog’ Palestine”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:We feel we have been victimised over the centuries. It’s part of our psyche – underneath it all we side with the underdog.”
* (chiefly psychology) The human mind as the central force in thought, emotion, and behavior of an individual.
* A small white butterfly, Leptosia nina, family Pieridae, of Asia and Australasia.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Shortened form of psychology, from French psychologie, from Latin psychologia, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) and -λογία (-logía, “study of”)

#### Alternative forms

* psych

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsaɪk/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪk

#### Noun

psyche (uncountable)
* Abbreviation of psychology.

#### Interjection

psyche
* (colloquial) Alternative form of psych

#### Verb

psyche (third-person singular simple present psyches, present participle psyching, simple past and past participle psyched)
* Alternative form of psych

### Further reading

* “psyche”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “psyche”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Latin psychē, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: psy‧che

### Noun

psyche f (plural psyches)
* psyche, soul, spirit

#### Derived terms

* psychisch

## Latin
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ψῡχή (psūkhḗ, “soul, breath”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpsyː.kʰeː/, [ˈps̠yːkʰeː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpsi.ke/, [ˈpsiːke]

### Noun

psȳchē f (genitive psȳchēs); first declension
* mind
* spirit

#### Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: psique
* → Czech: psýcha
* → Danish: psyke
* → Dutch: psyche
* → English: psyche
* → Esperanto: psiko
* → Finnish: psyyke
* → French: psyché
* → German: Psyche
* → Italian: psiche
* → Occitan: psiquè
* → Portuguese: psique
* → Serbo-Croatian: psiha, пси̏ха
* → Sicilian: psichi
* → Spanish: psique, psiquis
* → Swedish: psyke
* → Yiddish: פּסיכע (psikhe)

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpsɘ.xɛ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɘxɛ
* Syllabification: psy‧che
* Homophones: Psyche, psychę

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin psychē.

#### Noun

psyche f (indeclinable)
* (literary, psychoanalysis) psyche (human soul, mind, or spirit)
    Synonym: psychika

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from French psyché.

#### Noun

psyche f (indeclinable)
* cheval glass (long mirror, mounted on a swivel in a frame, allowing it to be tilted)

##### Related terms

* Psyche

### Further reading

* psyche in Polish dictionaries at PWN