Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1680.sāl on page 1680
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sāl salt
sāl is a Latin Noun that primarily means salt.
Definitions for sāl
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
salt, wit
English derivatives:
salad salami salary salina saline salify salimeter salinometer sauce sausage
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
Common salt (sodium chloride); (pl.) lumps of salt. (b) (as a symbol of hospitality).
- 2
(a) flos ~lis, Crystalline salt obtained from brine; also, an unknown oily deposit found near salt-mines. (b) ~l fossicius (fossilis), rock-salt. (c) ~l marinus, sea-salt. (e) ~l natiuus, natural salt, rock-salt. (f) ~l nitrum = NITRVM. (g) sucus ~lis, brine.
- 3
Salt water, brine.
Sentences with sāl
Latin to English
Candidus a salibus suffusis felle refugi: nulla venenato littera mixta ioco est.Compare Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in gall - not a letter of mine is dipped in poisoned jest.
Dicta, sales, lusus, sermonis gratia, risus vincunt naturae candidioris opus.Compare Words, wit, play, sweet talk and laughter, surpass the work of too simple nature.
Nam castum esse decet pium poetam ipsum, versiculos nihil necesse est, qui tum denique habent salem ac leporem, si sunt molliculi ac parum pudici et quod pruriat incitare possunt, non dico pueris, sed his pilosis qui duros nequeunt movere lumbos.Compare For a poet respectful of the Muses should himself be chaste, but his little verses need not be so. All their salt and elegance comes from being licentious, immodest, suggestive of prurient thoughts - not indeed in children but in hairy old men unable to bestir their numbed loins. [Tr. N.G.]
Sal invectus utor.Compare They were using imported salt.
Sal plus in forum, et alius alibi pretium praebeo.Compare They furnished salt at a higher rate in the markets, and at different prices in different places.
Declension table for sāl
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | sāl | salēs |
| Gen. | salis | salum |
| Dat. | salī | salibus |
| Acc. | salem | salēs |
| Abl. | sale | salibus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 230.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1680.
- Word frequencies
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
Bibliography
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Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Delatte, Louis, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard. Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language]. Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège (L.A.S.L.A.), 1981.
Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
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Glare, Peter G.W. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Vols. 1-8. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Krüger, Bernd. "Latin Conjugation Tables." Cactus2000. Accessed May 5, 2023. https://latin.cactus2000.de/index.en.php.
Pierson, Nick. "Sound of Text." Accessed October 26, 2019. https://soundoftext.com.
Wheelock, Frederick M. Wheelock's Latin. 6th ed. Revised by Richard A. LaFleur. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
Wiktionary Contributors. "Victionarium." Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Updated March 18, 2019. https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Victionarium:Pagina_prima.
Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "sāl, salis (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/sal-salis.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 230.sāl, salis on page 230
