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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The soul or vital spirit.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Breath; spirit; soul.
  2. n. A breathing, In early church music: A form of ligature at the end of certain plain-chant melodies, resembling the perielesis, but differing from it in being sung to an unmeaning syllable having no connection with the text. Its use can be traced with certainty to the fourth century, and it is still employed in the services of the Roman Catholic Church, especially at high mass
  3. n. In theology, the spirit; the highest in man and the seat of the divine indwelling, as distinguished from the soul, the seat of the natural human life.

Wiktionary

  1. n. music a neume
  2. n. the spirit or soul
  3. n. Gnosticism one of three levels of a human being, the spirit, along with the body and soul

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek πνεῦμα (pneuma, "wind, breath, spirit"), from πνέω (pneō, "I blow, breathe") (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek; see pneu- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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