Latin

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Etymology

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Either from sāl (salt) or borrowed from Ancient Greek σάλος (sálos, movement of the sea).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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salum n sg (genitive salī); second declension

  1. the (open or high) sea, main, deep, ocean
  2. (nautical) roadstead, berth, anchorage
  3. the sea in motion; waves, billow
  4. (figuratively) the colour of the sea
  5. (figuratively) sea of thought, anxiety, agitation or trouble
  6. (figuratively, of a river) stream, current

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative salum
Genitive salī
Dative salō
Accusative salum
Ablative salō
Vocative salum

Derived terms

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References

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  • 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

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Noun

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salum

  1. dative plural of sæl