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salmo

Portuguese, noun/ˈsaw.mu/

salmo is spelled S-A-L-M-O (5 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 18,794th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Salmo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “psalm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “canto religioso hebraico que era acompanhado por instrumento de corda, uma espécie de lira, e por instrumento…”.

What does salmo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinepsalm

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. canto religioso hebraico que era acompanhado por instrumento de corda, uma espécie de lira, e por instrumento de sopro 2. prece poética cantada em louvor a Deus, caracterizada por duplo ritmo, o das palavras e o das ideias, utilizando o saltério como acompanhamento 3. cada um dos cânticos bíblicos, atribuídos a vários autores, a maioria ao rei Davi (c. 1015-975 a.C.), que foram musicados, e são de grande importância litúrgica judaica e cristã

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of salmo

  • salmos plural
  • psalmo alternative obsolete

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce salmo?

  • Brazil /ˈsaw.mu/
  • Brazil [ˈsaʊ̯.mu]
  • Portugal /ˈsal.mu/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to salmo

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is salmo in Portuguese?

salmo appears 2.6 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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