psi

Abbreviation of English Pashayi.

psi

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Southeast Pashayi.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Southeast Pashayi terms

Ancient Greek alphabet

← chi		→ omega
Ψ ψ Ancient Greek: ψεῖ
Wikipedia article on psi

From Middle English psi, from Latin psī, from Ancient Greek ψεῖ (pseî), the name for the twenty-third letter of the alphabet (Ψ, ψ).^[1]

Greek letter

• enPR: psī, sī, IPA^(key): /psaɪ/, /saɪ/

• Audio (US); “psi” (Greek letter):

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• Homophones: xi, sigh, scye, sai, Si (all for the latter pronunciation only)
• Rhymes: -aɪ

Psychic energy

• enPR: sī, IPA^(key): /saɪ/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophones: xi, sigh, scye, sai, Si
• Rhymes: -aɪ

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.

• psi function
• psi particle

• (Greek-script letter names) alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega

Initialism of pounds per square inch.

• P.S.I., PSI

psi

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.

• psia

• IPS, IPs, ISP, Isp, PIs, SIP, SPI, iPS, isp, pis, sip

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpsi]

psi f (plural psis)

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈpsɪ]

psi

1. nominative/vocative plural of pes

From Ancient Greek ψεῖ (pseî).

• IPA^(key): /psi/

• Audio:

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

1. psi (letter of the Greek alphabet)

• psi on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

• IPA^(key): /psi/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Homophones: psy, psys

psi m (plural psi)

1. psi (Greek letter)

• “psi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• pis, spi

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

psi m or f (invariable)

1. psi (Greek letter)

• spi

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

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: psi

psi (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (relational) canine, dog

   Synonyms: pieski, (archaic) sobaczy

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ψῖ (psî).

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

psi n (indeclinable)

1. psi (Greek letter Ψ, ψ)

Onomatopoeic

• (Masovia):
  • (Near Masovian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɕi/

psi

1. (Near Masovian, often repeated) used to call young dogs

   Coordinate term: a cucu

• 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
• Karol Mátyás (1891), “psi”, in “Słowniczek gwary ludu zamieszkującego wschodnio-południową najbliższą okolicę Nowego Sącza”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 4, Kraków: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 328

• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: psi

Derived from Ancient Greek ψεῖ (pseî)

psi m (plural psis)

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

psi m or f by sense (plural psis)

1. (informal) clipping of psicólogo

• "psi", in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa [em linha], 2008-2024, https://dicionario.priberam.org/psi.

Borrowed from Greek ψι (psi).

psi m (plural psi)

1. psi

• IPA^(key): [psi]

psi m anim

1. nominative plural of pes

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

psi f (plural psíes)

1. psi; the Greek letter Ψ, ψ

• “psi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024