Salo
See also: Appendix:Variations of "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/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝lo̞]
- Rhymes: -ɑlo
- Syllabification(key): Sa‧lo
Proper noun
Salo
- a Finnish 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 referring to a 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 | ||
abessive | Salotta | Saloitta | ||
instructive | — | Saloin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
Statistics
- Salo is the 21st most common surname in Finland, belonging to 12,677 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
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]
- (modern Italianate 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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