squalus

• squātus

Probably both senses related to squāma (“scale”), of unknown origin. In the sense of dirty, unkempt, this word has traditionally been associated with the cognates listed at cālīgō (“darkness, mist”), although these associations are tenuous. Conversely, for the fish, a less likely relationship with Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”) has been suggested, in which case perhaps cognate with Ancient Greek ἄσπαλος (áspalos), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬭𐬀‎ (kara, “kind of fish”), Old Prussian kalis, and Old English hwæl (“whale”), more information at whale.

squālus m (genitive squālī); second declension

1. a kind of sea fish, thought to be a shark

Second declension.

• squālor
• squāleō
• squālidus

squālus

1. unkempt, dirty

Second declension.

• squalus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• squalus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• squalus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette