psi
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Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek ψεῖ (pseî), the name for the twenty-third letter of the alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
Pronunciation
Greek letter
- enPR: psī, sī, IPA(key): /psaɪ/, /saɪ/
Audio (US) (Greek letter) (file) - Homophones: xi, sigh, scye, sai, Si (all for the latter pronunciation only)
- Rhymes: -aɪ
Psychic energy
Noun
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
Translations
Greek letter
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psychic energy
Etymology 2
Initialism of pounds per square inch.
Alternative forms
- P.S.I.
- PSI
Related terms
Catalan
Dutch
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ψεῖ (pseî).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /psi/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- psi on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
French
Further reading
- “psi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpsi/*
- Rhymes: -i
- Hyphenation: psì
Anagrams
Polish
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьsьjь. By surface analysis, pies + -i.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɕi/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -i
- Syllabification: psi
Adjective
psi (not comparable, no derived adverb)
Declension
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 |
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ψῖ (psî).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /psi/
- Rhymes: -i
- Syllabification: psi
Portuguese
Romanian
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsi/ [ˈsi]
- Rhymes: -i
- Syllabification: psi
Further reading
- “psi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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