Etymology

salop

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Today it means: An old name for Shropshire and the official name for the county between 1974 and 1980, still occasionally used in postal addresses. Full definition →

Latin Salopia ← Old French Slopesberie
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  1. Old French · derived fromSlopesberie“Shrewsbury”
  2. Latin · derived fromSalopia
  3. English todaySalop

From Latin Salopia Salopesberia (“Shrewsbury”) or Salopescira (“Shropshire”), the former a corruption of Old French Slopesberie (“Shrewsbury”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.