Silarus

Latin

Alternative forms

• Silerus

Etymology

Borrowed from Illyrian, from Proto-Indo-European *sil-ₑro-, suffixed zero-grade form of *seyl-, extension of *sey- (“to be damp, drip”), related to Old Saxon sioloth (“lake”), Old Irish silid (“he flows”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.la.rus/, [ˈs̠ɪɫ̪ärʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.la.rus/, [ˈsiːlärus]

View of the river

Proper noun

Silarus m sg (genitive Silarī); second declension

1. A river of Southern Italy forming the boundary between Campania and Lucania, now the river Sele.
2. A river of Northern Italy forming the boundary between Emilia and Romagna, now the river Sillaro.

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Silarus
genitive	Silarī
dative	Silarō
accusative	Silarum
ablative	Silarō
vocative	Silare

References

• “Silarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Silarus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Silarus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Pokorny, Julius, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 1959.