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Etymology 1
[edit]From Ancient Greek ψεῖ (pseî), the name for the twenty-third letter of the alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
Pronunciation
[edit]Greek letter
- enPR: psī, sī, IPA(key): /psaɪ/, /saɪ/
Audio (US); “psi” (Greek letter): (file) - Homophones: xi, sigh, scye, sai, Si (all for the latter pronunciation only)
- Rhymes: -aɪ
Psychic energy
Noun
[edit]psi (countable and uncountable, plural psis)
- (countable) The twenty-third letter of Classical and Modern Greek and the twenty-fifth letter of Old and Ancient Greek.
- (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.
Derived terms
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psychic energy
See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Initialism of pounds per square inch.
Alternative forms
[edit]Symbol
[edit]psi
- Pounds per square inch (an imperial unit of pressure)
Related terms
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[edit]Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]psi f (plural psis)
Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]psi
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ψεῖ (pseî).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]psi m or f (plural psi's, diminutive psi'tje n)
- psi (letter of the Greek alphabet)
Further reading
[edit]psi on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]psi m (plural psi)
- psi (Greek letter)
Further reading
[edit]- “psi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]psi m or f (invariable)
- psi (Greek letter)
Anagrams
[edit]Polish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьsьjь. By surface analysis, pies + -i.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]psi (not comparable, no derived adverb)
- (relational) canine, dog
Declension
[edit]Declension of psi (soft)
singular | plural | |||||
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masculine animate | masculine inanimate | feminine | neuter | virile (= masculine personal) | non-virile | |
nominative | psi | psia | psie | psi | psie | |
genitive | psiego | psiej | psiego | psich | ||
dative | psiemu | psiej | psiemu | psim | ||
accusative | psiego | psi | psią | psie | psich | psie |
instrumental | psim | psią | psim | psimi | ||
locative | psim | psiej | psim | psich |
Derived terms
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Related terms
[edit]verb
- psocić impf
nouns
Etymology 2
[edit]Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ψῖ (psî).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]psi n (indeclinable)
- psi (Greek letter Ψ, ψ)
Further reading
[edit]- psi in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- psi in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -i
- Hyphenation: psi
Noun
[edit]psi m (plural psis)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]psi m (plural psi)
Declension
[edit]Declension of psi
Slovak
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]psi m anim
- nominative plural of pes
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]psi f (plural psíes)
Further reading
[edit]- “psi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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