salum

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.lum/, [ˈs̠äɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.lum/, [ˈsäːlum]

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

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

• īnsula (uncertain)
• salor

• “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

salum

1. dative plural of sæl