salino

Forms

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

Etymology

It is borrowed from Latin salīnus (“of salt”), a learned borrowing.^[2][3][4] The Latin adjective is derived from sāl (“salt”).^[2] The same Latin word gave Spanish salino and Catalan salí (“salty”), and popular nouns for salt-cellars and salt stores in Italian and Occitan dialects.^[5][6]

The Latin noun goes back to *sāls and to *séh₂l, with cognates such as Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls).^[7][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Houaiss dates the adjective to 1707, in the sense “containing salt or made of salt”.^[2] The CTA corpus has a single earlier salino in the Vida de Santo Elói, a witness of 1491, whose sense the corpus does not show.^[8]

Semantic evolution

Morais (1813) gives the sense “of the nature of salt, or containing salt”, as in remédios salinos “saline remedies”.^[9] Vieira adds the botanical sense “growing in land soaked with salt water” and the old chemical use of the word for acid, alkaline and other substances.^[10] The original Caldas Aulete records the pharmacy term mistura salina, a preparation of potassium citrate, water and syrup.^[11] In Rio Grande do Sul the word describes a coat of horses or cattle flecked with white, red or black spots;^[12][2][13] Beaurepaire-Rohan entered this use in 1889.^[12][2][13]

Timeline

• 1707 – first record, as Houaiss dates it.^[2]
• 1813 – Morais defines it and cites remédios salinos.^[9]
• 1871–1874 – Vieira adds the sense “growing in salty soil”.^[10]
• 1889 – Beaurepaire-Rohan records the Rio Grande do Sul sense for an animal's coat.^[12]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Containing salt (sal) or made of salt; saline: água salina.^[2][14][1]
2. Of the nature of salt; relating to salt: uma brisa salina.^[15][14][1]
3. (chemistry) Having the properties of a salt.^[2][11]
4. (biology) Growing by the sea or in salt water.^[2][15][1]
5. (Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul) Of a horse or cattle: having a coat speckled with white, red or black spots.^[2][13]

Word family

• hipersalino
• salinidade
• salinizar

Related words

• sal
• salina
• salgado
• Latin sāl

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. salino
3. ^ Nascentes, Antenor (1966), Dicionário etimológico resumido, Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, p. s.v. salino
4. ^ Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, revised online edition (2023–) of the Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea (2001), https://dicionario.acad-ciencias.pt, p. s.v. salino
5. ^ García de Diego, Vicente (1985), Diccionario etimológico español e hispánico, 2nd ed., Madrid: Espasa-Calpe (1st ed. 1954), p. s.v. salinus
6. ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter, p. 7538
7. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill, p. s.v. sāl
8. ^ Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, CTA – Corpus de Textos Antigos, https://teitok.clul.ul.pt/cta, p. s.v. salino
9. ^ a b Silva, António de Morais (1813), Diccionario da lingua portugueza, 2nd ed., 2 vols., Lisboa: Typographia Lacerdina, p. 2, 659
10. ^ a b Vieira, Frei Domingos (1871–1874), Grande Diccionario Portuguez ou Thesouro da lingua portugueza, 5 vols., Porto: Ernesto Chardron e Bartholomeu H. de Moraes, p. 5, 384
11. ^ a b Aulete, Francisco Júlio Caldas, Dicionário contemporâneo da língua portuguesa (1st ed. 1881), online as Aulete Digital, Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon, https://aulete.com.br, p. s.v. salino
12. ^ a b c Beaurepaire-Rohan, Henrique de (1889), Diccionario de vocabulos brazileiros, Rio de Janeiro: Imprensa Nacional, p. s.v. salino
13. ^ a b c Schlee, Aldyr Garcia (2019), Dicionário da Cultura Pampeana Sul-Rio-Grandense, 2 vols., Pelotas: Fructos do Paiz, p. s.v. salino
14. ^ a b Michaelis: Moderno Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, São Paulo: Melhoramentos (online as Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa, https://michaelis.uol.com.br), p. s.v. salino
15. ^ a b Ferreira, Aurélio Buarque de Holanda, Novo dicionário Aurélio da língua portuguesa, digital edition, p. s.v. salino