salino

Forms

salino (feminine salina, masculine plural salinos, feminine plural salinas)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Latin salīnus (“of salt”), an adjective formed from sāl (“salt”) with the suffix -īnus.^[2][3][4] Corominas lists it among the derivatives of sal, beside salina, from salīnae (“salt pans”), and the DLE puts the noun and the adjective in one article.^[5][6][7] The Wikcionario analyses it instead as a formation in Spanish, from Spanish sal + -ino.^[8]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record in Boyd-Bowman's Americas corpus is from Yucatán in 1560, which describes a marsh as tan salina “so salty”.^[9] Corominas dated the word from the beginning of the 18th century, in Autoridades, which quotes a medical text on dry bodies that are más salinos “more saline”.^[5][10]

Semantic evolution

In the 18th century the word was used mainly by physicians and chemists: Terreros glosses it as what contains salt, and a text from Lima of 1791 speaks of the saline character of mercury.^[11][9] The Academy defined it in 1817 as what has salt or is salted, and Domínguez in 1846 adds a skin complaint of the face.^[12][13] The sense “speckled with white”, used of cattle, is recorded in Salamanca and is in the DLE.^[14][6]

Timeline

• 1560 – a text from Yucatán describes a marsh as salina.^[9]
• early 18th century – Autoridades enters the word;^[10] Corominas's first record.^[5][10]
• 1791 – a Lima text speaks of the carácter salino of mercury.^[9]
• 1817 – the Academy defines it as what has salt or is salted.^[12]

Meanings

Adjective

1. saline; containing salt: un lago salino del interior.^[6][15][1]
2. Having the qualities of salt (sal).^[6][15]
3. Of cattle: speckled with small white spots.^[6][15][14]

Word family

• salinidad

Related words

• sal
• salina
• salado
• Latin salīnae

Usage notes

The feminine salina is also a noun, a salt mine or a salt works where sea or spring water is evaporated.^[6]

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ García de Diego, Vicente (1985), Diccionario etimológico español e hispánico, 2nd ed., Madrid: Espasa-Calpe (1st ed. 1954), p. s.v. salino
3. ^ Gómez de Silva, Guido (1988), Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua española, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica / El Colegio de México, p. s.v. salino
4. ^ Segura Munguía, Santiago (2014), Lexicón etimológico y semántico del latín y de las voces actuales que proceden de raíces latinas o griegas, Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, p. 702
5. ^ a b c Corominas, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1980–1991), Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, 6 vols., Madrid: Gredos, p. 5, 130
6. ^ a b c d e f Real Academia Española; Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2014–), Diccionario de la lengua española, 23rd ed., online version 23.8, https://dle.rae.es, p. s.v. salino
7. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
8. ^ Wikcionario (Spanish Wiktionary), es.wiktionary.org
9. ^ a b c d Boyd-Bowman, Peter (2003), Léxico hispanoamericano 1493–1993, ed. Ray Harris-Northall and John J. Nitti, New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, p. s.v. salino
10. ^ a b c Real Academia Española (1726–1739), Diccionario de la lengua castellana (Diccionario de Autoridades), 6 vols., Madrid: Francisco del Hierro, p. 6
11. ^ Terreros y Pando, Esteban de (1786–1793), Diccionario castellano con las voces de ciencias y artes y sus correspondientes de las tres lenguas francesa, latina e italiana, 4 vols., Madrid: Viuda de Ibarra, p. 3, 423
12. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1817), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 5th ed., Madrid: Imprenta Real, p. 780
13. ^ Domínguez, Ramón Joaquín (1846–1847), Diccionario nacional o gran diccionario clásico de la lengua española, 2 vols., Madrid: Establecimiento Léxico-Tipográfico de R. J. Domínguez, p. 2, 1537
14. ^ a b Lamano y Beneite, José de (1915), El dialecto vulgar salmantino, Salamanca: Tipografía Popular, p. 625
15. ^ a b c Moliner, María (2007), Diccionario de uso del español, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. salino