Saravus

• Sarra

Of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *ser- (“to flow, move”) with the Gallic suffix -avus, related to *srutom (“stream, river”).[1]

View of the river

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ra.u̯us/, [ˈs̠äräu̯ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ra.vus/, [ˈsäːrävus]

Saravus m sg (genitive Saravī); second declension

1. The river Sarre or Saar

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Sarra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Saravus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Saravus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly