English Online Dictionary. What means salt? What does salt mean?
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”). Doublet of sal, ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: sŏlt, IPA(key): /sɒlt/
- (Conservative RP) enPR: sôlt, IPA(key): /sɔːlt/
- (US) enPR: sôlt, IPA(key): /sɔlt/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: sält, IPA(key): /sɑlt/, [sɑɫt], [sɑɫʔ]
- (New Zealand) enPR: sŏlt, IPA(key): /sɔlt/, [sɔɯ̯t]
- Rhymes: (UK) -ɒlt, (Conservative RP, US, New Zealand) -ɔːlt, (cot-caught merger) -ɑlt
Noun
salt (countable and uncountable, plural salts)
- A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
- c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11:
- Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]
- c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11:
- (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
- (uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
- (slang) A sailor (also old salt).
- (cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.
- A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
- (obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.
- (obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.
- Attic salt
- (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
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- I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts.
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- (historical, in the plural) Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
- (figuratively) Skepticism and common sense.
- Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.
- (Internet slang) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
- There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.
- (UK, historical) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
- One who joins a workplace for the purpose of unionizing it.
Synonyms
- sal (obsolete)
Derived terms
Related terms
- salary
Descendants
- Bislama: sol
- Tok Pisin: sol
Translations
Adjective
salt (comparative more salt, superlative most salt)
- Salty; salted.
- Saline.
- Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
- (figuratively, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
- (figuratively, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
- (Can we date this quote by Urquhart and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?) (translator), The First Book of the works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Book 2, Chapter 22, p. 153,[1]
- And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their accesse to her, and every way keeping such a coyle with her, as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]
- (colloquial, archaic) Costly; expensive.
Derived terms
- saltness
- salt spray
Translations
Verb
salt (third-person singular simple present salts, present participle salting, simple past and past participle salted)
- (transitive) To add salt to.
- to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
- (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
- (nautical, of a ship) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
- To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
- (mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
- (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
- (transitive) To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
- (transitive) To sprinkle throughout.
- (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
- To render a thing useless.
- (military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
- (wiki) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.
- (military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
Antonyms
- (add salt): desalt
Derived terms
- desalt
- salt away
- salt down
- salt out
- salt the earth
- salt up
Translations
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin saltus.
Noun
salt (plural salts)
- (obsolete) A bounding; a leaping; a prance.
- 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass, in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume V page 67
- 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass, in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume V page 67
Anagrams
- Alts, LTAs, TLAs, alts, last, lats, slat
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan salt, from Latin saltus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈsalt/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ˈsal/
Noun
salt m (plural salts)
- jump
- waterfall
Derived terms
- salt de perxa
- saltiró
Related terms
- saltar
References
- “salt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “salt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Crimean Gothic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.
Noun
salt
- salt
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
- Salt. Sal.
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
Czech
Noun
salt
- genitive plural of salto
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse saltr (“salt”), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /salˀd/, [sælˀd̥], [sælˀt]
Adjective
salt
- salty, salt
Inflection
Etymology 2
From Old Norse salt (akin to Old Saxon salt, Old High German salz, Old Dutch salt, Old English sealt), from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls. Compare Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish salt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /salˀt/, [sæ̝lˀt]
Noun
salt n (singular definite saltet, plural indefinite salte)
- salt
Inflection
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
salt
- imperative of salte
Related terms
- salte
- mineralsalt
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [sal̥t]
Etymology 1
From Old Norse salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
Noun
salt n (genitive singular salts, plural sølt)
- salt
Declension
Related terms
- pipar
- edikur
- sinnopur
- olivinolja
- epli
- pannukøka
- rosina
- sukur
- drúvusukur
- vaniljusukur
- súltusukur
- siropur
Etymology 2
From Old Norse saltr (“salt”), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
Adjective
salt
- salty
Declension
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin saltus.
Noun
salt m (plural salts)
- jump, leap, spring
Related terms
- saltâ
Gothic
Romanization
salt
- Romanization of 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐍄
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sal̥t/
- Rhymes: -al̥t
Noun
salt n (genitive singular salts, nominative plural sölt)
- salt
- Geturðu rétt mér saltið?
- Can you pass me the salt?
- Geturðu rétt mér saltið?
Declension
Derived terms
- salta
- saltstaukur
- saltsýra
- vega salt
Adjective
salt
- positive degree neuter singular nominative/accusative of saltur
Latvian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“cold; hot”). Cognates include Lithuanian šálti.
Pronunciation
Verb
salt (intr., 1st conj., pres. salstu, salsti, salst, past salu)
- to freeze
Conjugation
Middle English
Alternative forms
- selt, sealt, salte, zalt, saulte, sawt, scealte
Etymology
From Old English sealt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą (noun) and Proto-Germanic *saltaz (adjective).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /salt/, /sɛlt/
Noun
salt (uncountable)
- salt (sodium chloride)
- Something containing or for storing salt
- Any of a group of crystalline compounds that resemble salt
Related terms
- salten
- salthous
Descendants
- English: salt
- Scots: sawt, salt, saut
- Yola: zall
References
- “salt, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.
Adjective
salt (plural and weak singular salte, comparative salter, superlative saltest)
- salty, tasting of salt
- salted, coated in salt
Descendants
- English: salt
- Scots: sawt, salt, saut
References
- “salt, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse saltr.
Adjective
salt (neuter singular salt, definite singular and plural salte, comparative saltere, indefinite superlative saltest, definite superlative salteste)
- salty, salt, salted
- salte peanøtter - salted peanuts
Etymology 2
From Old Norse salt (akin to Old Saxon salt, Old High German salz, Old Dutch salt, Old English sealt), from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls. Compare Danish, Swedish and Icelandic salt.
Noun
salt n (definite singular saltet, indefinite plural salter, definite plural salta or saltene)
- salt
Etymology 3
Verb
salt
- imperative of salte
Derived terms
References
- “salt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɑlt/
Etymology 1
From Old Norse saltr.
Adjective
salt (neuter singular salt, definite singular and plural salte, comparative saltare, indefinite superlative saltast, definite superlative saltaste)
- salty, salt, salted
Etymology 2
From Old Norse salt (akin to Old Saxon salt, Old High German salz, Old Dutch salt, Old English sealt), from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls.
Noun
salt n (definite singular saltet, indefinite plural salt, definite plural salta)
- salt
Derived terms
References
- “salt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse salt.
Noun
salt n
- salt
Descendants
- Danish: salt
Etymology 2
From Old Norse saltr.
Adjective
salt
- salty, salt
Descendants
- Danish: salt
Old Frisian
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *saltą (“salt”), *saltaz (“salty, salted”).
Noun
salt n
- salt
Inflection
Descendants
- North Frisian: saalt
- Saterland Frisian: Soalt, Saalt
- West Frisian: sâlt
Adjective
salt
- salty, salted
Descendants
- West Frisian: sâlt
Old Norse
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *saltą.
Noun
salt n
- salt
Declension
Related terms
- salta (“to salt”)
- saltr (“salty”)
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
salt
- strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of saltr (“salty”)
References
- “salt”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Romanian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin saltus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsalt/
Noun
salt n (plural salturi)
- leap
- saltation
Declension
Related terms
- sălta
- săltare
- săltat
- săltăreț
- săltător
- săltătură
Verb
salt
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of sălta
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /salt/
Etymology 1
From Old Swedish salter, from Old Norse saltr, from Proto-Germanic *saltaz, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
Adjective
salt (comparative saltare, superlative saltast)
- salty
Declension
Etymology 2
From Old Swedish salt, from Old Norse salt (akin to Old Saxon salt, Old High German salz, Old Dutch salt, Old English sealt), from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls. Compare Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian salt.
Noun
salt n
- salt
- (uncountable) sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
- (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
Declension
Synonyms
- bordssalt
Derived terms
- bergsalt
- havssalt
- medelhavssalt
- saltlake
- saltkristall
- saltstänkt
- saltsyra
Related terms
- salta
- sälta
Anagrams
- last, lats, stal, tals
Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *sal- (“to unleash”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /saɫt/
Adverb
salt
- exclusively, only, just, absolute
Synonyms
- bir
- sadece
- sırf
- tek
- yalnız
- (absolute) mutlak
Related terms
- salmak
Further reading
- salt in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu