salt

salt
subs.
Ar. and P. ἅλς, ὁ, or pl.
Be worth one’s salt: use P. ἄξιος λόγου εἶναι

salt
adj.
P. and V. ἁλμῠρός.

salt
v. trans.
P. ταριχεύειν (Plat.).

SALT

s. PROP. sal. Common salt sal popularis (Cato): rock salt sal fossilis: sea salt sal marinus: refined salt sal candidus purus: fine salt; i.e. beaten small sal minute tritus: to turn to salt in salem abire (Plin.): to eat bread and salt salem cum pane essitare (Plin.; ☞ Hor. Sat. 2 2 17): to sprinkle salt over anything sale conspergere aliquid (Col.) or rei salem aspergere (Plin.): a salt spring *fons aquae salsae; *fons unde aquae salsae profluunt: a salt pit salis fodina (Varr.); salifodina (Vitr.); salina (Cic. Caes.): a dealer in salt salinator (Liv.): a grain of salt grumus or mica salis (Plin.): the salt trade negotium salarium; salis commercium (Liv.): a salt warehouse *horreum salis; *horreum salibus servandis. ☞ The plur. salia salts used by some moderns is not found in any ancient writer.

Figuratively sal: sales plur.; e.g. Attici sales (Cic. Fam. 9 15 2): Attico lepore tincti sales (Mart. 3 20 29).

salt (subs.):

I. Lit.: sal, sălis, m.: fine, white s., s. candidus, Cato, R. R. 88: common s., s. popularis, ib.: to lay anything in s., aliquid in sale ponere, ib.: to keep it there, in s. habere, ib.: rock or sea s., s. fossilis, marinus, Varr. R. R. 2, 11, med.; called respectively, s. maritimus, fossicius, ib. 1, 7, ad fin.: a grain of s., salis mica, Plin.

II. Fig. of elegance and wit, săles, ium: Cic. Fam. 9, 15 (s. Attici): v. WIT.

salt (adj.):

1. salsus (impregnated or prepared with s.): this is (too) s., hoc salsum est, Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 71: s. (briny) tears, s. lacrimae, Lucr.

2. sălītus: v. SALTED; TO SALT. Phr.: s. water (= sea-water). aqua marina, Pall. Oct. 14: s. fish, salsāmenta, orum: Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 26: dealer in s. fish, salsamentarius: Suet.: Hor.

salt (v.): i. e. to preserve in s., sălio, 4. Col. 6, 32: Cato. Or by circuml., sale condire (v. TO PICKLE, PRESERVE): how to s. meat, salsura carnis ut fiat, cf. Col. 12, 53.

ἅλς
ἅλς, salt, grain of salt
ἁλμυρός
salt, briny

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appearing fewer than 50 times

καθαλμής
salt, saltish
σαλτάριος
salt
σφέκλη
faecula, burnt wine-crust, salt of tartar
φέκλη
faecula, burnt wine-crust, salt of tartar
φαίκλα
faecula, burnt wine-crust, salt of tartar
ἁλάτιον
salt
ἁλέλαιον
salt in oil
ἁλίζω2
to salt
ἁλμήεις
salt, briny
ἁλυκός
salt
ἅλας
salt

salio
to salt
salsus
salt(y), briny, witty

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appearing fewer than 50 times

faecula
burnt wine-crust, salt of tartar

salt Salt

• people ignorant of: Paus. 1.12.5