scirocco

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒkəʊ

Noun

scirocco (plural sciroccos)

1. 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”). Akin to Italian barocco. Compare Sicilian sciroccu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ʃiˈrɔk.ko/
• Rhymes: -ɔkko
• Hyphenation: sci‧ròc‧co

Noun

scirocco m (plural scirocchi)

1. sirocco (hot southerly to southeasterly wind)

Derived terms

• sciroccato (“weird”)

Descendants

• → Arabic: شَلُوق (šalūq), شَلُوك (šalūk)
  • Maltese: xlokk
  • >? Maltese: xellug
• → Dutch: sirocco
• → English: sirocco, sciroc, siroc, scirocco
• → French: sirocco, siroc (archaic)
• → 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