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Latin
Etymology
Either from sāl (“salt”) or borrowed from Ancient Greek σάλος (sálos, “movement of the sea”).
Pronunciation
Noun
salum n sg (genitive salī); second declension
- the (open or high) sea, main, deep, ocean
- (nautical) roadstead, berth, anchorage
- the sea in motion; waves, billow
- (figuratively) the colour of the sea
- (figuratively) sea of thought, anxiety, agitation or trouble
- (figuratively, of a river) stream, current
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.
Derived terms
References
- “salum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “salum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- salum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- salum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- salum in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
Old English
Noun
salum
- dative plural of sæl