salt
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą (compare Dutch zout, German Salz, Norwegian salt and Swedish salt), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l- (compare French sel, Welsh halen, Old Irish salann, Latin sal, Russian соль (solʹ), Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls), Albanian ngjelmë (“salty, savory”), Old Armenian աղ (ał), Tocharian A sāle, Sanskrit सलिल (salila)).
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /sɔːlt/, /sɒlt/
- (US) IPA(key): /sɔlt/, /sɑlt/
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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, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 1
- 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.
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
- (cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting 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
- Shakespeare
- Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen […] we have some salt of our youth in us.
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete) piquancy; wit; sense
- Attic salt
- (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
- Samuel Pepys
- I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts.
- Samuel Pepys
- (figuratively) That which preserves from corruption or error, or purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction.
- His statements must be taken with a grain of salt.
- Bible, Matthew v. 13
- Ye are the salt of the earth.
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from salt
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
sodium chloride
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compound of an acid and a base
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salt marsh — see salt marsh
sailor
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additional bytes inserted into an encryption
person engaged in unionizing
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AdjectiveEdit
salt (comparative more salt, superlative most salt)
- Salty; salted.
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salt beef; salt tears
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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.
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- Saline.
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a salt marsh; salt grass
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- Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
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a salt mine
- The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.
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- (figuratively, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
- William Shakespeare
- I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me.
- William Shakespeare
- (figuratively, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
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1603, William Shakespeare, Othello Act III, Scene 3:
- 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.
- François Rabelais (in translation), Gargantua and Pantagruel
- And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]
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TranslationsEdit
salty
saline
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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.
- (mining) To blast gold into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
- (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
- To include colorful language in.
- To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
- (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.
- To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
AntonymsEdit
- (add salt): desalt
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to add salt to
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to blast gold into
to include colorful language
to add bogus evidence to an archeological site
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AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
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:
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. |
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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
Declension of salt
Etymology 3Edit
Non-lemma forms.
VerbEdit
salt
- imperativ of salte
VerbEdit
salt
- imperativ 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) |
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FriulianEdit
GothicEdit
IcelandicEdit
PronunciationEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
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
declension of salt
Derived termsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
salt
- positive neuter singular nominative or accusative of saltur
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
conjugation of salt
| INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) | IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme) |
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Past (pagātne) |
Future (nākotne) |
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| 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 | ||
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, Norwegian, and Swedish salt.
NounEdit
salt n (definite singular saltet, indefinite plural salter, definite plural salta or saltene)
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
Old FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *saltą (“salt”), *saltaz (“salty, salted”).
NounEdit
salt n
DeclensionEdit
Declension of salt (neuter a-stem)
| case | singular | plural |
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| nominative | salt | salt |
| accusative | salt | salt |
| genitive | saltes | salta |
| dative | salte | saltum, saltem |
DescendantsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
salt
DescendantsEdit
- West Frisian: sâlt
RomanianEdit
PronunciationEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
salt n (plural salturi)
DeclensionEdit
declension of salt
| 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
SwedishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Swedish salter, from Old Norse saltr, from Proto-Germanic *saltaz, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
salt (comparative saltare, superlative saltast)
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of salt | |||
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| Indefinite/attributive | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | salt | saltare | saltast |
| Neuter singular | salt | saltare | saltast |
| Plural | salta | 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 an attributive role. |
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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.
PronunciationEdit
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 |
