scirocco
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɒkəʊ
Noun edit
scirocco (plural sciroccos)
- Alternative spelling of sirocco
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Likely from Old Occitan eissalot and its variants (e.g. eyssiroc), from Massalian Ancient Greek *ἐξαλώτης (*exalṓtēs), from ἔξαλος (éxalos, "out of the sea" → "wind from the southeast"). Traditionally thought to be a derivative of Arabic شرق (šarq, “east”). Akin to Italian barocco. Compare Sicilian sciroccu.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
scirocco m (plural scirocchi)
- sirocco (hot southerly to southeasterly wind)
Derived terms edit
- sciroccato (“weird”)
Descendants edit
- → Arabic: شَلُوق (šalūq), شَلُوك (šalūk)
- → Dutch: sirocco
- → English: sirocco, sciroc, siroc; scirocco
- → French: sirocco, siroc
- → Greek: σιρόκος (sirókos)
See also edit
Further reading edit
- Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, page 406 Nr. 603