Salernum
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibilities include:
- One of the cities' Etruscan nicknames, as it was originally colonized by Etruscans.[1]
- From an Italic (possibly Oscan) derivative of Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”), as the colony was on the coast.[2]
- From a Mediterranean substrate *sala (“channel”), with the suffix -ern- typical of substrate names.[3]
Proper noun
[edit]Salernum n sg (genitive Salernī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Salernum |
| genitive | Salernī |
| dative | Salernō |
| accusative | Salernum |
| ablative | Salernō |
| vocative | Salernum |
| locative | Salernī |
References
[edit]- “Salernum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Salernum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Etruscan
- Latin terms derived from Italic languages
- Latin terms derived from Oscan
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from substrate languages
- Latin lemmas
- Latin proper nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin neuter nouns in the second declension
- Latin neuter nouns
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