Salo

== English == === Alternative forms === Salò === Etymology === From Italian Salò. === Proper noun === Salo A city and municipality of Southwest Finland. A town in Lombardy, Italy. Ellipsis of Salo Republic. ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === ASLO, LAOS, LOAs, Laos, Loas, also, loas, soal, sola == Finnish == === Etymology === From salo, in place names in its obsolete meaning “a wooded island”. The Southwest Finnish town derives from this meaning, as the site of the original church in the area was on an island (but no longer an island due to glacial rebound), and this island likely had a name ending in salo. The town was then named by shortening that name. The surname, besides deriving from place names, was also adopted by many families at the turn of the 20th century, interpreted as “wild forest”. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsɑlo/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝lo̞] Rhymes: -ɑlo Syllabification(key): Sa‧lo Hyphenation(key): Sa‧lo === Proper noun === Salo a Finnish surname from landscape (uncountable) Salo (a city and municipality of Southwest Finland) any of a number of villages in Finland ==== Declension ==== (town): The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used when referring to a location; for example, "in Salo" is Salossa. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== Salomaa Salonen Salovaara ==== Descendants ==== → English: Salo → Swedish: Salo ==== Statistics ==== Salo is the 21st most common surname in Finland, belonging to 12,520 individuals, according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland. === References === === Further reading === Salo (täsmennyssivu) on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia fi === Anagrams === Laos, olas, sola == Latin == === Etymology === Bascuas derived the river name from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“flowing water”), a variant of *ser- (“to flow”), an example of Old European hydronymy. Compare the cognates listed at Latvian sala (“island”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsa.ɫoː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsaː.lo] === 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. === 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