sallo

Forms

sallō (present infinitive sallere, supine salsum); third conjugation, no perfect stem^[1] The fourth-conjugation salliō (sallīre) has the same meaning and is found from Cato on.^[2][3] A future participle salsūrus is found in Mummius.^[4][3]

Etymology

It is inherited from Proto-Italic *sald-e/o- (“to salt”), inherited from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂l-d- (“salt”).^[2] The noun for salt, sāl, has the same root without the *-d-.^[2][5] The past participle, *saldto-, regularly became salsus.^[2]

Cognate with Old High German salz (“salt”) and Lithuanian saldùs (“sweet”).^[2]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is found from Lucilius on,^[2][4] meaning to salt.^[5][4]

Semantic evolution

Varro says that owners first killed pigs and salted them to keep the meat (ut servarent sallere).^[6] The grammarian Diomedes cites the verb,^[7] and many dictionaries treat it under salio² “to salt”.^[7][3][8] De Vaan lists salsus “salted, salty”, salsāmentum and salsūra among its family.^[2]

Timeline

• c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it.^[2][4][9]
• 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of salting pork.^[6][9]
• second half of the 4th century AD – Diomedes cites it.^[7][9]

Meanings

Verb

1. To salt, make salty.^[5][4]

Word family

• īnsulsus
• persalsus
• praesulsus
• salsārius
• salsedo
• salsīcius
• salsilāgō
• salsitas
• salsitūdō
• salsiusculus
• salsūgō
• salsūra

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
3. ^ a b c Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
4. ^ a b c d e Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
5. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
6. ^ a b Marcus Terentius Varro, De lingua Latina (text of The Latin Library; book and paragraph numbers as there).
7. ^ a b c Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
8. ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
9. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de