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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *tuh₂-(e)l-o- ~ *tweh₂-(e)l-o-, from *tewh₂- (“to swell, to crowd, to be strong”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sá.los/ → /ˈsa.los/ → /ˈsa.los/
Noun
σάλος • (sálos) m (genitive σάλου); second declension
- A rolling or tossing motion
- the movement of the sea
- earthquake
- a ship rolling in the sea
- distemper, restlessness, perplexity
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “σάλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σάλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4535 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- billow idem, page 79.
- heaving idem, page 393.
- oscillation idem, page 580.
- rocking idem, page 720.
- roll idem, page 720.
- surge idem, page 843.
- sway idem, page 847.
- swell idem, page 848.
- tossing idem, page 884.
- vibration idem, page 950.
- wash idem, page 964.
- wave idem, page 967.
Greek
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σάλος (sálos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsa.los/
- Hyphenation: σά‧λος
Noun
σάλος • (sálos) m
- (nautical) strong movement of the sea
- Synonyms: θαλασσοταραχή (thalassotarachí), τρικυμία (trikymía), φουρτούνα (fourtoúna), αναταραχή (anatarachí), αντάρα (antára), κλύδων (klýdon)
- (by extension) unrest
- Synonyms: αναστάτωση (anastátosi), αναταραχή (anatarachí), αναβρασμός (anavrasmós), αντάρα (antára)
- Antonyms: γαλήνη (galíni), ηρεμία (iremía)
Παραιτήθηκε ο πρωθυπουργός. Έγινε σάλος.- Paraitíthike o prothypourgós. Égine sálos.
- The prime minister resigned. There was an uproar.
Declension
σάλος
| case \ number
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singular
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| nominative
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σάλος •
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| genitive
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σάλου •
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| accusative
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σάλο •
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| vocative
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σάλε •
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- see: σαλεύω (salévo, “move slightly”)