salt (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Lit.II. Fig. of elegance and wit, săles, ium • 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.) Copy link Outline 1. salsus (impregnated or prepared with s.)2. sălītus • 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.) Copy link • 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.
SALT Copy link • SALT 1. 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). 2. adj., salsus. Salt fish, piscis sale conditus or maceratus: salt meat, caro sale condita; also, salsamenta, -orum (nominative plur.; salt meat or fish, an article of trade or commerce): a salt taste, sapor salis (Plin.); sapor salsus (Lucr.). 3. v. salire: sale conspergere: salem aspergere alicui rei (to strew salt over): sale condire (to season or preserve with salt): sale macerare (to dissolve): sale indurare (to harden with salt). To salt thoroughly, sale obruere.