# salmo
## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Latin salmō. Compare German Salm, Italian salmone, French saumon, Arabic سلمون (salmōn, salamōn), Japanese サーモン (sāmon).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [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: /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 Latin) IPA: /ˈsal.moː/, [ˈs̠äɫ̪moː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈsal.mo/, [ˈsälmo]

### Noun

salmō m (genitive salmōnis); third declension
* salmon

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Catalan: salmó
* Old French: saumon, salmon, salmone, salmoun, salmun, saumun
** French: saumon
*** Haitian Creole: somon
*** → Romanian: somon
*** → Turkish: somon
** → Middle English: samoun, salmon, samen, samon, samone, samown, samun, samwn, saumon, sawmoun, sawmun
*** English: salmon
**** → Burmese: ဆယ်လမွန် (hcaila.mwan)
**** → Hebrew: סַלְמוֹן (sálmon)
**** → Hindi: सामन (sāman)
**** → Japanese: サーモン (sāmon)
*** Scots: saumon, sawmon
*** Yola: zamoon
* Galician: salmón
* Italian: salmone
* Occitan: salmon, saumon
* Portuguese: salmão
* Spanish: salmón
* → Arabic: سلمون (salmōn, salamōn)
* → Esperanto: salmo
* → Proto-West Germanic: *salmō (see there for further descendants)
* → Ido: salmono
* → Indonesian: salmon
* → Interlingua: salmon
* → Malay: salmon
* → Volapük: salm

### References

* ↑ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “salmō, ōnis”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎ (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 591
* ↑ Preobrazhensky, A. G. (1914–1916) “salmo”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 2 (П – С), numbers 10–14, Moscow: G. Lissner & D. Sobko Publishing House, page 355

### 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.
* Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN

## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *salmō.

### Noun

salmo m
* salmon

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: salme
** German: Salm

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* psalmo (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Old Galician-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: /ˈsaw.mu/ [ˈsaʊ̯.mu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsaw.mu/ [ˈsaʊ̯.mu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈsaw.mo/ [ˈsaʊ̯.mo]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsal.mu/ [ˈsaɫ.mu]
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -almu, (Brazil) -awmu
* Hyphenation: sal‧mo

### Noun

salmo m (plural salmos)
* psalm

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* psalmo (obsolete)

### Etymology

Inherited 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: /ˈsalmo/ [ˈsal.mo]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish salmo.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈsalmo/ [ˈsal.mo]
* Rhymes: -almo
* Syllabification: sal‧mo

### Noun

salmo (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ᜔ᜋᜓ)
* psalm; hymn
    Synonyms: dalit, awit, imno

#### Related terms

* salmista

### Anagrams

* lamos