salum Latin · revision 32202

+ {{infobox|confidence=disputed|formation=borrowing|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius|origins=grc σάλος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsa.ɫũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsaː.lum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''salum''' ''n sg'' (genitive salī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Ennius has a masculine ''salus'', in the accusative ''salum''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Lewis & Short note that it occurs only in the singular.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is probably [[bor|grc|σάλος|tr=sálos|t=movement of the sea]], as Lewis & Short have it; the OLD compares the Greek word, and Wiktionary gives the borrowing as one explanation.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary's other explanation derives it from [[m|la|sāl|t=salt, sea]].^(Wiktionary) Köbler compares a root [[ine-pro|*sā̆lo-|t=surging]] from Pokorny.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Ennius,^(Köbler 2010) whose tragedy speaks of the surging swell.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the sea in motion, the swell or billow, and Statius applies it to a river in spate.^(OLD 2012) It is also the open sea away from land, as against the sea near the coast or in a port, as Accius' fleet drawn out into the deep, and poets name a particular sea, as Propertius' Aegean.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Wiktionary also gives an anchorage or roadstead, and figurative uses for a sea of troubles.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius of the surging swell.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius of a fleet drawn out to sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius of the Aegean sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius of a river in spate.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The sea in motion, [[m|en|swell]], [[m|en|billow]]; of a river in spate.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The open sea, the [[m|en|deep]]; poetically, a particular sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An anchorage, [[m|en|roadstead]].^(Wiktionary)

+ # Figuratively, a sea of troubles.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[salor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sal|alt=sāl]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}