Salo
English
Alternative forms
Finnish
Etymology
From salo, in place names in its obsolete meaning "a wooded island". The surname was also adopted by many families at the turn of the 20th century, interpreted as "wild forest".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɑlo/, [ˈs̠ɑlo̞]
- Rhymes: -ɑlo
- Syllabification(key): Sa‧lo
Proper noun
Salo
- a surname from landscape
- (uncountable) A town and municipality on the southwest coast of Finland.
- Any of a number of small places in Finland.
Declension
- (town): The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used when talking about location; for example, "in Salo" is Salossa.
Inflection of Salo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Salo | Salot | |
genitive | Salon | Salojen | |
partitive | Saloa | Saloja | |
illative | Saloon | Saloihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Salo | Salot | |
accusative | nom. | Salo | Salot |
gen. | Salon | ||
genitive | Salon | Salojen | |
partitive | Saloa | Saloja | |
inessive | Salossa | Saloissa | |
elative | Salosta | Saloista | |
illative | Saloon | Saloihin | |
adessive | Salolla | Saloilla | |
ablative | Salolta | Saloilta | |
allative | Salolle | Saloille | |
essive | Salona | Saloina | |
translative | Saloksi | Saloiksi | |
instructive | — | Saloin | |
abessive | Salotta | Saloitta | |
comitative | — | Saloineen |
Possessive forms of Salo (type valo) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | Saloni | Salomme |
2nd person | Salosi | Salonne |
3rd person | Salonsa |
Further reading
Salo (täsmennyssivu) on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia fi
Latin
Etymology

View of the river
Bascuas derived the river name from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“flowing water”), a variant of *ser- (“to flow”), an example of Old European hydronymy.[1] Compare the cognates listed at Latvian sala (“island”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsa.loː/, [ˈs̠äɫ̪oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsa.lo/, [ˈsäːlo]
Proper noun
Salō m sg (genitive Salōnis); third declension
- A river in Hispania Tarraconensis that flows near Bilbilis and then into the Iberus, now the Jalón
Declension
Third-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Salō |
Genitive | Salōnis |
Dative | Salōnī |
Accusative | Salōnem |
Ablative | Salōne |
Vocative | Salō |
References
- “Sălo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Salo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “Salo”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- "La Hidronimia de Galicia: tres estratos ..," p. 541
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