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Salt
Salt
,Noun.
1.
The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles.
2.
Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning.
Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen . . . we have some
salt
of our youth in us. Shakespeare
3.
Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense;
as, Attic
. salt
4.
A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.
I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver
salts
. Pepys.
5.
A sailor; – usually qualified by old.
[Colloq.]
Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old
salts
. Hawthorne.
6.
(Chem.)
The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base;
thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the
. salt
sulphate of iron or green vitriol☞ Except in case of ammonium salts, accurately speaking, it is the acid radical which unites with the base or basic radical, with the elimination of hydrogen, of water, or of analogous compounds as side products. In the case of diacid and triacid bases, and of dibasic and tribasic acids, the mutual neutralization may vary in degree, producing respectively basic, neutral, or acid salts. See Phrases below.
7.
Fig.
: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of
. salt
Ye are the
salt
of the earth. Matt. v. 13.
8.
pl.
Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber’s salt.
9.
pl.
Marshes flooded by the tide.
[Prov. Eng.]
Above the salt
, Below the salt
phrases which have survived the old custom, in the houses of people of rank, of placing a large saltcellar near the middle of a long table, the places above which were assigned to the guests of distinction, and those below to dependents, inferiors, and poor relations. See
Saltfoot
.His fashion is not to take knowledge of him that is beneath him in clothes. He never drinks
– below the salt
. B. Jonson.
Acid salt
(Chem.)
(a)
A salt derived from an acid which has several replaceable hydrogen atoms which are only partially exchanged for metallic atoms or basic radicals;
as, acid potassium sulphate is an
. acid salt
(b)
A salt, whatever its constitution, which merely gives an acid reaction;
– thus, copper sulphate, which is composed of a strong acid united with a weak base, is an
. acid salt
in this sense, though theoretically it is a neutral saltAlkaline salt
(Chem.)
, a salt which gives an alkaline reaction, as sodium carbonate.
– Amphid salt
(Old Chem.)
, a salt of the oxy type, formerly regarded as composed of two oxides, an acid and a basic oxide.
[Obsolescent]
– Basic salt
(Chem.)
(a)
A salt which contains more of the basic constituent than is required to neutralize the acid
. (b)
An alkaline salt.
– Binary salt
(Chem.)
, a salt of the oxy type conveniently regarded as composed of two ingredients (analogously to a haloid salt), viz., a metal and an acid radical.
– Double salt
(Chem.)
, a salt regarded as formed by the union of two distinct salts, as common alum, potassium aluminium sulphate. See under
– Double
. Epsom salts
. See in the Vocabulary.
– Essential salt
(Old Chem.)
, a salt obtained by crystallizing plant juices.
– Ethereal salt
. (Chem.)
See under
– Ethereal
. Glauber's salt
or Glauber's salts
See in Vocabulary.
– Haloid salt
(Chem.)
, a simple salt of a halogen acid, as sodium chloride.
– Microcosmic salt
. (Chem.)
. See under
– Microcosmic
. Neutral salt
. (Chem.)
(a)
A salt in which the acid and base (in theory) neutralize each other
. (b)
A salt which gives a neutral reaction.
– Oxy salt
(Chem.)
, a salt derived from an oxygen acid.
– Per salt
(Old Chem.)
, a salt supposed to be derived from a peroxide base or analogous compound.
[Obs.]
– Permanent salt
, a salt which undergoes no change on exposure to the air.
– Proto salt
(Chem.)
, a salt derived from a protoxide base or analogous compound.
– Rochelle salt
. See under
– Rochelle
. Salt of amber
(Old Chem.)
, succinic acid.
– Salt of colcothar
(Old Chem.)
, green vitriol, or sulphate of iron.
– Salt of hartshorn
. (Old Chem.)
(a)
Sal ammoniac, or ammonium chloride
. (b)
Ammonium carbonate. Cf.
– Spirit of hartshorn
, under Hartshorn
. Salt of lemons
. (Chem.)
See
– Salt of sorrel
, below. Salt of Saturn
(Old Chem.)
, sugar of lead; lead acetate; – the alchemical name of lead being Saturn.
– Salt of Seignette
. Same as
– Rochelle salt
. Salt of soda
(Old Chem.)
, sodium carbonate.
– Salt of sorrel
(Old Chem.)
, acid potassium oxalate, or potassium quadroxalate, used as a solvent for ink stains; – so called because found in the sorrel, or Oxalis. Also sometimes inaccurately called
– salt of lemon
. Salt of tartar
(Old Chem.)
, potassium carbonate; – so called because formerly made by heating cream of tartar, or potassium tartrate.
[Obs.]
– Salt of Venus
(Old Chem.)
, blue vitriol; copper sulphate; – the alchemical name of copper being Venus.
– Salt of wisdom
. See
– Alembroth
. Sedative salt
(Old Med. Chem.)
, boric acid.
– Sesqui salt
(Chem.)
, a salt derived from a sesquioxide base or analogous compound.
– Spirit of salt
. (Chem.)
See under
– Spirit
. Sulpho salt
(Chem.)
, a salt analogous to an oxy salt, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen.
1.
Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted;
“Salt tears.” as,
. salt
beef; salt
waterChaucer.
2.
Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water;
as, a
. salt
marsh; salt
grass3.
Fig.
: Bitter; sharp; pungent. I have a
salt
and sorry rheum offends me. Shakespeare
4.
Fig.
: Salacious; lecherous; lustful. Shak.
Salt acid
(Chem.)
, hydrochloric acid.
– Salt block
, an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt factory.
Knight.
– Salt bottom
, a flat piece of ground covered with saline efflorescences.
[Western U.S.]
Bartlett.
– Salt cake
(Chem.)
, the white caked mass, consisting of sodium sulphate, which is obtained as the product of the first stage in the manufacture of soda, according to Leblanc's process.
– Salt fish
. (a)
Salted fish, especially cod, haddock, and similar fishes that have been salted and dried for food.
(b)
A marine fish.
– Salt garden
, an arrangement for the natural evaporation of sea water for the production of salt, employing large shallow basins excavated near the seashore.
– Salt gauge
, an instrument used to test the strength of brine; a salimeter.
– Salt horse
, salted beef.
[Slang]
– Salt junk
, hard salt beef for use at sea.
[Slang]
– Salt lick
. See
– Lick
, Noun.
Salt marsh
, grass land subject to the overflow of salt water.
– Salt-marsh caterpillar
(Zool.)
, an American bombycid moth (
– Spilosoma acraea
which is very destructive to the salt-marsh grasses and to other crops. Called also woolly bear
. See Illust. under Moth
, Pupa
, and Woolly bear
, under Woolly
. Salt-marsh fleabane
(Bot.)
, a strong-scented composite herb (
– Pluchea camphorata
) with rayless purplish heads, growing in salt marshes. Salt-marsh hen
(Zool.)
, the clapper rail. See under
– Rail
. Salt-marsh terrapin
(Zool.)
, the diamond-back.
– Salt mine
, a mine where rock salt is obtained.
– Salt pan
. (a)
A large pan used for making salt by evaporation; also, a shallow basin in the ground where salt water is evaporated by the heat of the sun.
(b)
pl.
Salt works.
– Salt pit
, a pit where salt is obtained or made.
– Salt rising
, a kind of yeast in which common salt is a principal ingredient.
[U.S.]
– Salt raker
, one who collects salt in natural salt ponds, or inclosures from the sea.
– Salt sedative
(Chem.)
, boracic acid.
[Obs.]
– Salt spring
, a spring of salt water.
– Salt tree
(Bot.)
, a small leguminous tree (
– Halimodendron argenteum
) growing in the salt plains of the Caspian region and in Siberia. Salt water
, water impregnated with salt, as that of the ocean and of certain seas and lakes; sometimes, also, tears.
Mine eyes are full of tears, I can not see;
And yet
But they can see a sort of traitors here.
– And yet
salt water
blinds them not so muchBut they can see a sort of traitors here.
Shakespeare
Salt-water sailor
, an ocean mariner.
– Salt-water tailor
. (Zool.)
See
Bluefish
. Salt
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Salted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Salting
.] 1.
To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt;
as, to
. salt
fish, beef, or pork; to salt
cattle2.
To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
To salt a mine
, to artfully deposit minerals in a mine in order to deceive purchasers regarding its value.
[Cant]
– To salt away
, To salt down
to prepare with, or pack in, salt for preserving, as meat, eggs, etc.; hence, colloquially, to save, lay up, or invest sagely, as money.
Salt
,Verb.
I.
To deposit salt as a saline solution;
as, the brine begins to
. salt
Salt
,Noun.
[L.
saltus
, fr. salire
to leap.] The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Salt
SALT
,Noun.
1.
Common salt is the muriate of soda, a substance used for seasoning certain kinds of food, and for the preservation of meat, &c. It is found native in the earth, or it is produced by evaporation and crystallization from water impregnated with saline particles.2.
In chimistry, a body compounded of an acid united to some base, which may be either an alkali, an earth, or a metallic oxyd. Accordingly, salts are alkaline, earthy, or metallic. Many compounds of this kind, of which common salt, (muriate of soda,) is the most distinguished, exist in nature; but most of these, together with many others not known in nature, have been formed by the artificial combination of their elements. Their entire number exceeds 2000. When the acid and base mutually saturate each other, so that the individual properties of each are lost, the compound is a neutral salt; when the acid predominates, it is a super salt; and when the base predominates, it is a sub salt. Thus we have a subcarbonate, a carbonate, and a supercarbonate of potash.3.
Taste; sapor; smack.We have some salt of our youth in us.
4.
Wit; poignancy; as Attic salt.SALT
,Adj.
1.
Having the taste of salt;impregnated with salt; as salt beef; salt water2.
Abounding with salt; as a salt land. Jer. 17.3.
Overflowed with salt water, or impregnated with it; as a salt marsh.4.
Growing on salt marsh or meadows and having the taste of salt; as salt grass or hay.5.
Producing salt water; as a salt spring.6.
Lecherous; slacious.SALT
,Noun.
1.
The part of a river near the sea, where the water is salt.2.
A vessel for holding salt.SALT
, v.t.1.
To sprinkle, impregnate or season with salt; as, to salt fish, beef or pork.2.
To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.SALT
,Verb.
I.
SALT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
salt
salt
English
Noun
salt (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).
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
- Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 1
- I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook.
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
- (cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting 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
- Shakespeare
- Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen […] we have some salt of our youth in us.
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete) piquancy; wit; sense
- Attic salt
- (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
- Samuel Pepys
- I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts.
- Samuel Pepys
- (figuratively) That which preserves from corruption or error, or purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction.
- His statements must be taken with a grain of salt.
- Bible, Matthew v. 13
- Ye are the salt of the earth.
Derived terms
terms derived from salt
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Related terms
Translations
sodium chloride
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compound of an acid and a base
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salt marsh — see salt marsh
sailor
additional bytes inserted into an encryption
person engaged in unionizing
Adjective
salt (comparative more salt, superlative most salt)
- Salty; salted.
- salt beef; salt tears
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
- Saline.
- a salt marsh; salt grass
- Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
- a salt mine
- The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.
- (figuratively, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
- William Shakespeare
- I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me.
- William Shakespeare
- (figuratively, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful.
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello Act III, Scene 3:
- It is impossible you should see this, \ Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, \ As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross \ As ignorance made drunk.
-
Translations
salty
saline
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.
- The brine begins to salt.
- (mining) To blast gold into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
- (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
- To include colorful language in.
- To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
- (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.
- To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
Antonyms
- (add salt): desalt
Derived terms
Translations
to add salt to
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to blast gold into
to include colorful language
to add something into an object
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to add bogus evidence to an archeological site
Anagrams
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:
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse saltr (“salt”), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /salt/, [salˀd̥]
Adjective
salt
Inflection
| Inflection of salt | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
| Common singular | salt | saltere | saltest2 |
| Neuter singular | salt | saltere | saltest2 |
| Plural | salte | saltere | saltest2 |
| Definite attributive1 | salte | saltere | salteste |
| 1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. | |||
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): /salt/, [salˀd̥]
Noun
salt n (singular definite saltet, plural indefinite salte)
Inflection
Inflection of salt
Etymology 3
Non-lemma forms.
Verb
salt
- imperativ of salte
Verb
salt
- imperativ of salte
Related terms
Faroese
salt
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)
Declension
| n5 | Singular | Plural | ||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | salt | saltið | sølt | søltini |
| Accusative | salt | saltið | sølt | søltini |
| Dative | salti | saltinum | søltum | søltunum |
| Genitive | salts | saltsins | salta | saltanna |
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
Declension
| saltur a21 | |||
| Singular (eintal) | m (kallkyn) | f (kvennkyn) | n (hvørkikyn) |
| Nominative (hvørfall) | saltur | sølt | salt |
| Accusative (hvønnfall) | saltan | salta | |
| Dative (hvørjumfall) | søltum | saltari | søltum |
| Genitive (hvørsfall) | (salts) | (saltar/ saltrar) |
(salts) |
| Plural (fleirtal) | m (kallkyn) | f (kvennkyn) | n (hvørkikyn) |
| Nominative (hvørfall) | saltir | saltar | sølt |
| Accusative (hvønnfall) | saltar | ||
| Dative (hvørjumfall) | søltum | ||
| Genitive (hvørsfall) | (salta saltra) |
||
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sal̥t/
- Rhymes: -al̥t
Etymology
From Old Norse salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
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
declension of salt
Derived terms
Adjective
salt
- positive neuter singular nominative or accusative of saltur
Latvian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“cold; hot”). Cognates include Lithuanian šálti.
Verb
salt intr., 1st conj., pres. salstu, salsti, salst, past salu
- to freeze
Declension
conjugation of salt
| INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) | IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme) |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present (tagadne) |
Past (pagātne) |
Future (nākotne) |
|||
| 1st pers. sg. | es | salstu | salu | salšu | — |
| 2nd pers. sg. | tu | salsti | sali | salsi | salsti |
| 3rd pers. sg. | viņš, viņa | salst | sala | sals | lai salst |
| 1st pers. pl. | mēs | salstam | salām | salsim | salsim |
| 2nd pers. pl. | jūs | salstat | salāt | salsiet, salsit |
salstiet |
| 3rd pers. pl. | viņi, viņas | salst | sala | sals | lai salst |
| CONJUNCTIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme) | PARTICIPLES (divdabji) | ||||
| Present | salstot | Present Active 1 (Adj.) | salstošs | ||
| Past | esot salis | Present Active 2 (Adv.) | saldams | ||
| Future | salšot | Present Active 3 (Adv.) | salstot | ||
| Imperative | lai salstot | Present Active 4 (Obj.) | salstam | ||
| CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme) | Past Active | salis | |||
| Present | saltu | Present Passive | salstams | ||
| Past | būtu salis | Past Passive | salts | ||
| DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme) | NOMINAL FORMS | ||||
| Indicative | (būt) jāsalst | Infinitive (nenoteiksme) | salt | ||
| Conjunctive 1 | esot jāsalst | Negative Infinitive | nesalt | ||
| Conjunctive 2 | jāsalstot | Verbal noun | salšana | ||
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Adjective
salt (neuter singular salt, definite singular and plural salte, comparative saltere, indefinite superlative saltest, definite superlative salteste)
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, Norwegian, and Swedish salt.
Noun
salt n (definite singular saltet, indefinite plural salter, definite plural salta or saltene)
Derived terms
References
- “salt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Adjective
salt (neuter singular salt, definite singular and plural salte, comparative saltare, indefinite superlative saltast, definite superlative saltaste)
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)
Derived terms
References
- “salt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Frisian
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *saltą (“salt”), *saltaz (“salty, salted”).
Noun
salt n
Declension
Declension of salt (strong a-stem, neuter)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | salt | salt |
| accusative | salt | salt |
| genitive | saltes | salta |
| dative | salte | saltum, saltem |
Descendants
- North Frisian:
- Föhr-Amrum: saalt
- West Frisian: sâlt
Adjective
salt
Descendants
- West Frisian: sâlt
Swedish
Etymology 1
From Old Swedish salter, from Old Norse saltr, from Proto-Germanic *saltaz, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /salt/
Adjective
salt (comparative saltare, superlative saltast)
Declension
| Inflection of salt | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite/attributive | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | salt | saltare | saltast |
| Neuter singular | salt | saltare | saltast |
| Plural | salta | saltare | saltast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | salte | saltare | saltaste |
| All | salta | saltare | saltaste |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in an attributive role. | |||
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
| Inflection of salt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | salt | saltet | salter | salterna |
| Genitive | salts | saltets | salters | salternas |
Synonyms
Derived terms
- bergsalt
- havssalt
- medelhavssalt
- saltlake
- saltkristall
- saltstänkt
- saltsyra
Related terms
Etymology
From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą (compare Dutch zout, German Salz, Swedish salt), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l- (compare French sel, Welsh halen, Old Irish salann, Latin sal, Russian соль (solʹ), Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls), Albanian ngjelmë (“salty, savory”), Old Armenian աղ (ał), Tocharian A sāle, Sanskrit सलिल (salila)).
Pronunciation
salt crystals