scirocco
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒkəʊ
Noun
scirocco (plural sciroccos)
- Alternative spelling of sirocco
Anagrams
- cocricos
Italian
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): */ʃiˈrɔk.ko/
- Rhymes: -ɔkko
- Hyphenation: sci‧ròc‧co
Noun
scirocco m (plural scirocchi)
- sirocco (hot southerly to southeasterly wind)
Derived terms
- sciroccato (“weird”)
Descendants
- → Arabic: شَلُوق (šalūq), شِلُوق (šilūq) (via a Berber language?)
- → Dutch: sirocco
- → English: sirocco, sciroc, siroc; scirocco
- → French: sirocco, siroc
- → Greek: σιρόκος (sirókos)
See also
- föhn
Further reading
- 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