salsus Latin · revision 7079

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈsaɫ.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈsal.sus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''salsus''' (feminine salsa, neuter salsum, adverb salsē); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the perfect participle of [[sallō]] “to salt”, from an earlier *saldō, with *sald-tos becoming *salssos.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ⟨Sallō⟩ is from [[sāl]] “salt”.^(Etymonline)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of salted food, and Cato, of what is naturally salty.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC and Cato 234–149 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant salted, preserved or flavoured with salt, as in Plautus and Pliny's ''salsiōrēs cibī'', and naturally salty, as in Cato.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Of water it meant salt, briny, and poetically the sea, as in Varro.^(OLD 2012) From Cicero it meant witty, funny, of speech and persons, salted with humour.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Its feminine or neuter plural ''salsa'' “salted things” passed through Old French ''sauce'' into [[en|sauce]] in the mid-14th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of salted food.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of what is salty.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of wit.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-14th century – English ''sauce'' is recorded, from ''salsa''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Salted.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|Salty]]; of water, briny.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|Witty]], funny.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sāl]]

+ * [[sallō]]

+ * [[en|sauce]]

+ * [[en|salt]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}