salt
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”). Doublet of sal, ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) enPR: sŏlt, IPA(key): /sɒlt/
- (US) enPR: sôlt, IPA(key): /sɔlt/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: sält, IPA(key): /sɑlt/, [sɑɫt], [sɑɫʔ]
- (New Zealand) enPR: sŏlt, IPA(key): /sɔlt/, [sɔɯ̯t]
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: (UK) -ɒlt, (Conservative RP, US, New Zealand) -ɔːlt, (cot-caught merger) -ɑlt
NounEdit
salt (countable and uncountable, plural salts)
- A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
- c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11:
- Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]
- c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11:
- (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
- (uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
- (slang) A sailor (also old salt).
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter:
- Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 1”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299:
- I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook.
- (cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.
- A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
- (obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:
- Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen […] we have some salt of our youth in us.
- (obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.
- Attic salt
- (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
- 1664 September 19 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys; Mynors Bright, transcriber, “September 9th, 1664”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume IV, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1894, OCLC 1016700617:
- I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts.
- (historical, in the plural) Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
- (figuratively) Skepticism and common sense.
- Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.
- (Internet slang) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
- There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.
- (UK, historical) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
SynonymsEdit
- sal (obsolete)
Derived termsEdit
- besalted
- chicken salt
- desalt
- Epsom salt
- Great Salt Lake
- hair-salt
- persalt
- pinch of salt
- protosalt
- rock salt
- rub salt in the wound
- salt and pepper
- saltcellar
- Salt Creek
- salt-free
- salt lake
- Salt Lake City
- Salt Lake County
- salt marsh
- salt of the earth
- salt sea
- Salt Sea
- saltspoon
- saltwater
- salty
- sea salt
- table salt
- take with a pinch of salt
- worth one's salt
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
TranslationsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
salt (comparative more salt, superlative most salt)
- Salty; salted.
- salt beef; salt tears
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
- Saline.
- a salt marsh; salt grass
- Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
- a salt mine
- The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.
- (figuratively, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iv]:
- I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me;
- (figuratively, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii]:
- It is impossible you should see this, / Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, / As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross / As ignorance made drunk.
- (Can we date this quote by Urquhart and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?) (translator), The First Book of the works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Book 2, Chapter 22, p. 153,[1]
- And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their accesse to her, and every way keeping such a coyle with her, as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]
- (colloquial, archaic) Costly; expensive.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
salt (third-person singular simple present salts, present participle salting, simple past and past participle salted)
- (transitive) To add salt to.
- to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
- (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
- The brine begins to salt.
- (nautical, of a ship) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
- To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
- (mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
- (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
- (transitive) To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
- 1964, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (page 417)
- The composition of the fallout can also be changed by "salting" the weapon to be detonated. This consists in the inclusion of significant quantities of certain elements, possibly enriched in specific isotopes, for the purpose of producing induced radioactivity. There are several reasons why a weapon might be salted.
- 1964, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (page 417)
- (transitive) To sprinkle throughout.
- They salted the document with arcane language.
- 1993, The Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy (page 154)
- These were pamphlets, often written in various Jewish vernaculars, describing the location of the Holy sites and salting the accounts with mythic and homiletical materials.
- (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
- To render a thing useless.
- (military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
- In this place were put to the ground and salted the houses of José Mascarenhas.
- (wiki) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.
- (military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
AntonymsEdit
- (add salt): desalt
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
salt (plural salts)
- (obsolete) A bounding; a leaping; a prance.
- 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass, in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume V page 67
- […] he hath the skill to draw
Their nectar forth, with kissing; and could make
More wanton salts from this brave promontory,
Down to this valley, than the nimble roe;
- 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass, in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume V page 67
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Catalan salt, from Latin saltus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
salt m (plural salts)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “salt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “salt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Crimean GothicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.
NounEdit
salt
- salt
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
- Salt. Sal.
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
CzechEdit
NounEdit
salt
DanishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse saltr (“salt”), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
salt
InflectionEdit
Inflection of salt | |||
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Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
Common singular | salt | saltere | saltest2 |
Neuter singular | salt | saltere | saltest2 |
Plural | salte | saltere | saltest2 |
Definite attributive1 | salte | saltere | salteste |
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. |
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Norse salt (akin to Old Saxon salt, Old High German salz, Old Dutch salt, Old English sealt), from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls. Compare Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish salt.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
salt n (singular definite saltet, plural indefinite salte)
InflectionEdit
Etymology 3Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
VerbEdit
salt
- imperative of salte
Related termsEdit
FaroeseEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
NounEdit
salt n (genitive singular salts, plural sølt)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of salt | ||||
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n5 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | salt | saltið | sølt | søltini |
accusative | salt | saltið | sølt | søltini |
dative | salti | saltinum | søltum | søltunum |
genitive | salts | saltsins | salta | saltanna |
Related termsEdit
- pipar
- edikur
- sinnopur
- olivinolja
- epli
- pannukøka
- rosina
- sukur
- drúvusukur
- vaniljusukur
- súltusukur
- siropur
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Norse saltr (“salt”), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
AdjectiveEdit
salt
DeclensionEdit
saltur a21 | |||
Singular (eintal) | m (kallkyn) | f (kvennkyn) | n (hvørkikyn) |
Nominative (hvørfall) | saltur | sølt | salt |
Accusative (hvønnfall) | saltan | salta | |
Dative (hvørjumfall) | søltum | saltari | søltum |
Genitive (hvørsfall) | (salts) | (saltar/ saltrar) |
(salts) |
Plural (fleirtal) | m (kallkyn) | f (kvennkyn) | n (hvørkikyn) |
Nominative (hvørfall) | saltir | saltar | sølt |
Accusative (hvønnfall) | saltar | ||
Dative (hvørjumfall) | søltum | ||
Genitive (hvørsfall) | (salta saltra) |
FriulianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
salt m (plural salts)
Related termsEdit
GothicEdit
RomanizationEdit
salt
- Romanization of 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐍄
IcelandicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
salt n (genitive singular salts, nominative plural sölt)
- salt
- Geturðu rétt mér saltið?
- Can you pass me the salt?
- Geturðu rétt mér saltið?
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
salt
LatvianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“cold; hot”). Cognates include Lithuanian šálti.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
salt (intr., 1st conj., pres. salstu, salsti, salst, past salu)
- to freeze
DeclensionEdit
INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) | IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme) | ||||
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Present (tagadne) |
Past (pagātne) |
Future (nākotne) | |||
1st pers. sg. | es | salstu | salu | salšu | — |
2nd pers. sg. | tu | salsti | sali | salsi | salsti |
3rd pers. sg. | viņš, viņa | salst | sala | sals | lai salst |
1st pers. pl. | mēs | salstam | salām | salsim | salsim |
2nd pers. pl. | jūs | salstat | salāt | salsiet, salsit |
salstiet |
3rd pers. pl. | viņi, viņas | salst | sala | sals | lai salst |
RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme) | PARTICIPLES (divdabji) | ||||
Present | salstot | Present Active 1 (Adj.) | salstošs | ||
Past | esot salis | Present Active 2 (Adv.) | saldams | ||
Future | salšot | Present Active 3 (Adv.) | salstot | ||
Imperative | lai salstot | Present Active 4 (Obj.) | salstam | ||
CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme) | Past Active | salis | |||
Present | saltu | Present Passive | salstams | ||
Past | būtu salis | Past Passive | salts | ||
DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme) | NOMINAL FORMS | ||||
Indicative | (būt) jāsalst | Infinitive (nenoteiksme) | salt | ||
Conjunctive 1 | esot jāsalst | Negative Infinitive | nesalt | ||
Conjunctive 2 | jāsalstot | Verbal noun | salšana |
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old English sealt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą (noun) and Proto-Germanic *saltaz (adjective).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
salt (uncountable)
- salt (sodium chloride)
- Something containing or for storing salt
- Any of a group of crystalline compounds that resemble salt
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “salt, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.
AdjectiveEdit
salt (plural and weak singular salte, comparative salter, superlative saltest)
- salty, tasting of salt
- salted, coated in salt
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “salt, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.
Norwegian BokmålEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
AdjectiveEdit
salt (neuter singular salt, definite singular and plural salte, comparative saltere, indefinite superlative saltest, definite superlative salteste)
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Norse salt (akin to Old Saxon salt, Old High German salz, Old Dutch salt, Old English sealt), from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls. Compare Danish, Swedish and Icelandic salt.
NounEdit
salt n (definite singular saltet, indefinite plural salter, definite plural salta or saltene)
Etymology 3Edit
VerbEdit
salt
- imperative of salte
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “salt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
AdjectiveEdit
salt (neuter singular salt, definite singular and plural salte, comparative saltare, indefinite superlative saltast, definite superlative saltaste)
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Norse salt (akin to Old Saxon salt, Old High German salz, Old Dutch salt, Old English sealt), from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls.
NounEdit
salt n (definite singular saltet, indefinite plural salt, definite plural salta)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “salt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old DanishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
salt n
DescendantsEdit
- Danish: salt
Etymology 2Edit
AdjectiveEdit
salt
DescendantsEdit
- Danish: salt
Old FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *saltą (“salt”), *saltaz (“salty, salted”).
NounEdit
salt n
InflectionEdit
case | singular | plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | salt | salt |
accusative | salt | salt |
genitive | saltes | salta |
dative | salte | saltum, saltem |
DescendantsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
salt
DescendantsEdit
- West Frisian: sâlt
Old NorseEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Germanic *saltą.
NounEdit
salt n
DeclensionEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
AdjectiveEdit
salt
- strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of saltr (“salty”)
ReferencesEdit
- “salt”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
salt n (plural salturi)
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) salt | saltul | (niște) salturi | salturile |
genitive/dative | (unui) salt | saltului | (unor) salturi | salturilor |
vocative | saltule | salturilor |
Related termsEdit
VerbEdit
salt
SwedishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Swedish salter, from Old Norse saltr, from Proto-Germanic *saltaz, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
AdjectiveEdit
salt (comparative saltare, superlative saltast)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of salt | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | salt | saltare | saltast |
Neuter singular | salt | saltare | saltast |
Plural | salta | saltare | saltast |
Masculine plural3 | salte | saltare | saltast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | salte | saltare | saltaste |
All | salta | saltare | saltaste |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Swedish salt, from Old Norse salt (akin to Old Saxon salt, Old High German salz, Old Dutch salt, Old English sealt), from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls. Compare Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian salt.
NounEdit
salt n
- salt
- (uncountable) sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
- (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
DeclensionEdit
Declension of salt | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | salt | saltet | salter | salterna |
Genitive | salts | saltets | salters | salternas |
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
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AnagramsEdit
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Turkic *sal- (“to unleash”).
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
salt
- exclusively, only, just, absolute
- salt çoğunluk
- absolute majority
SynonymsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- salt in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu