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psi

See also: Psi, PSI, psí, and pśi

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Ancient Greek Alphabet
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Ancient Greek: ψεῖ
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Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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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

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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.
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Translations
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See also

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

Etymology 2

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Initialism of pounds per square inch.

Alternative forms

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Symbol

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psi

 
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  1. Pound per square inch (an imperial unit of pressure)
    • 2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.3.5 Electrical Generation and Distribution System”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015‎[1], archived from the original on 15 May 2022, pages 36–37:
      Each turbogenerator consisted of a steam turbine, powered by 900 psi of superheated steam, that was coupled by a set of reduction gears to a General Electric marine alternating-current generator operating at 1,800 rpm. Each generator had a capacity of 2,000 kilowatts of three-phase power at 450 volts and 60 hertz. The main 450-volt switchboard was energized by the two turbogenerators. The emergency switchboard, in the emergency generator room, was fed from the main switchboard through an electrical tie.
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Anagrams

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Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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psi f (plural psis)

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

Czech

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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psi

  1. nominative/vocative plural of pes

Dutch

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek ψεῖ (pseî).

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Noun

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

  1. psi (letter of the Greek alphabet)

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French

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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psi m (plural psi)

  1. psi (Greek letter)

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Anagrams

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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psi m or f (invariable)

  1. psi (Greek letter)

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Polish

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Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɕi/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Syllabification: psi

Adjective

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psi (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. (relational) canine, dog
    Synonyms: pieski, (archaic) sobaczy
Declension
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Declension of psi (soft)
singular plural
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
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verb
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Etymology 2

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ψῖ (psî).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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psi n (indeclinable)

  1. psi (Greek letter Ψ, ψ)

Etymology 3

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Onomatopoeic

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Interjection

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psi

  1. (Near Masovian, often repeated) used to call young dogs
    Coordinate term: a cucu
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Further reading

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  • 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

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation: psi

Etymology 1

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Derived from Ancient Greek ψεῖ (pseî)

Noun

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psi m (plural psis)

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

Etymology 2

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Noun

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psi m or f by sense (plural psis)

  1. (informal) Clipping of psicólogo.

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Greek ψι (psi).

Noun

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psi m (plural psi)

  1. psi

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative psi psiul psi psii
genitive-dative psi psiului psi psilor
vocative psiule psilor

Slovak

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psi m anim

  1. nominative plural of pes

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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psi f (plural psíes)

  1. psi; the Greek letter Ψ, ψ

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