salt

See also: Salt, SALT, sâlt, sålt, and -salt

English

Etymology 1

PIE word
*séh₂ls

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 Doublet of sal, ultimately from Latin sāl (salt), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".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, sôlt, IPA(key): /sɒlt/, /sɔːlt/
  • (US) enPR: sôlt, IPA(key): /sɔlt/
  • (New Zealand) enPR: sŏlt, IPA(key): /sɔlt/, [sɔɯ̯t]
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒlt, -ɔːlt
Salt crystals

Noun

salt (countable and uncountable, plural salts)

  1. A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
    • 1430, Thomas Austin, editor, 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), volume 1, London: Routledge; N. Trübner & Co., published 1888, →OCLC, page 11:
      Take gode almaunde mylke y-draw wyth wyn, an let hem boyle to-gederys, an caste þer-to Safroun an Salt; []
      Take good almond milk made with wine, and let it boil together, and add thereto Saffron and Salt; []
    • 1880, Arthur Herbert Church, Food: Some Account of Its Sources, Constituents and Uses, London: Chapman and Hall, page 24:
      Common salt, chloride of sodium, appears to be essential to the life of the higher animals.
    • 2013, Bear Grylls, True Grit: the Epic True Stories of Heroism and Survival That Have Shaped My Life, →ISBN, page 9:
      Nando was pierced with grief, but he didn't allow himself to cry. Tears, he knew, would cost his body salt. Without salt, you die.
  2. (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.
  3. (uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
  4. (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 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 1”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
      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.
  5. (cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.
  6. A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
  7. (obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.
  8. (obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.
    Attic salt
  9. (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
  10. (historical, in the plural) Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
  11. (figurative) 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.
  12. (Internet slang) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
    There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.
  13. (UK, historical) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
  14. One who joins a workplace for the purpose of unionizing it.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Compound words and expressions
Descendants
  • Bislama: sol
  • Tok Pisin: sol
Translations

Adjective

salt (comparative more salt, superlative most salt)

  1. Of water: containing salt, saline.
    • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 97:
      After a few days of north-west wind, the waters of the Gordon will be found salt for twelve miles up from the bar.
  2. Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.
    salt beef
  3. Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea.
    a salt marsh
  4. Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea.
    salt grass
  5. Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
    a salt mine
    The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.
  6. (figurative, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
  7. (figurative, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
    • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
      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.
    • 1653, Thomas Urquhart, transl., The First Book of the works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Book 2, Chapter 22, p. 153:
      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 []
  8. (colloquial, archaic) Costly; expensive.
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb

salt (third-person singular simple present salts, present participle salting, simple past and past participle salted)

  1. (transitive) To add salt to.
    to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
  2. (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
    The brine begins to salt.
  3. (nautical, of a ship) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
  4. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
    1. (mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
    2. (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
    3. (transitive) To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
      • 1964, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, page 417:
        The composition of the fallout can also be changed by "salting" the weapon to be detonated. This consists in the inclusion of significant quantities of certain elements, possibly enriched in specific isotopes, for the purpose of producing induced radioactivity. There are several reasons why a weapon might be salted.
  5. (transitive) To sprinkle throughout.
    They salted the document with arcane language.
    • 1993, The Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy, page 154:
      These were pamphlets, often written in various Jewish vernaculars, describing the location of the Holy sites and salting the accounts with mythic and homiletical materials.
  6. (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
  7. To render a thing useless.
    1. (military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
      In this place were put to the ground and salted the houses of José Mascarenhas.
    2. (wiki) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of add salt): desalt
Derived terms
Translations
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin saltus.

Noun

salt (plural salts)

  1. (obsolete) A bounding; a leaping; a prance.
    • 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass, in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume V page 67
      […] he hath the skill to draw
      Their nectar forth, with kissing; and could make
      More wanton salts from this brave promontory,
      Down to this valley, than the nimble roe;

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan salt, from Latin saltus.

Pronunciation

Noun

salt m (plural salts)

  1. jump
  2. waterfall

Derived terms

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

  1. salt
    • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
      Salt. Sal.

Czech

Noun

salt

  1. 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

  1. salty, salt
Inflection
Inflection of salt
Positive Comparative Superlative
Indefinte common singular salt saltere saltest2
Indefinite 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): /salˀt/, [sæ̝lˀt]

Noun

salt n (singular definite saltet, plural indefinite salte)

  1. salt
Inflection

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

salt

  1. imperative of salte

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)

  1. salt
Declension
Declension of salt
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

Etymology 2

From Old Norse saltr (salt), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.

Adjective

salt

  1. salty
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)

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin saltus.

Noun

salt m (plural salts)

  1. jump, leap, spring

Gothic

Romanization

salt

  1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐍄

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls, *sáls.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sal̥t/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -al̥t

Noun

salt n (genitive singular salts, nominative plural sölt)

  1. salt
    Geturðu rétt mér saltið?
    Can you pass me the salt?

Declension

Derived terms

Adjective

salt

  1. positive degree neuter singular nominative/accusative of saltur

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (cold; hot). Cognates include Lithuanian šálti.

Verb

salt (intransitive, 1st conjugation, present salstu, salsti, salst, past salu)

  1. to freeze

Conjugation

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą (noun) and Proto-Germanic *saltaz (adjective).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /salt/
  • (Southern, Kent) IPA(key): /zalt/, /zɛlt/
  • (late) IPA(key): /sau̯lt/

Noun

salt (uncountable)

  1. salt (sodium chloride)
  2. Something containing or for storing salt
  3. Any of a group of crystalline compounds that resemble salt

Descendants

References

Adjective

salt (plural and weak singular salte, comparative salter, superlative saltest)

  1. salty, tasting of salt
  2. salted, coated in salt

Descendants

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse saltr.

Adjective

salt (neuter singular salt, definite singular and plural salte, comparative saltere, indefinite superlative saltest, definite superlative salteste)

  1. 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)

  1. salt

Verb

salt

  1. imperative of salte

Derived terms

References

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)

  1. 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)

  1. salt

Derived terms

References

Old Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse salt.

Noun

salt n

  1. salt
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Old Norse saltr.

Adjective

salt

  1. salty, salt
Descendants

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *saltą (salt), *saltaz (salty, salted).

Noun

salt n

  1. salt

Inflection

Declension of salt (neuter a-stem)
singular plural
nominative salt salt
genitive saltes salta
dative salte saltum, saltem
accusative salt salt

Descendants

Adjective

salt

  1. salty, salted

Descendants

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *saltą.

Noun

salt n

  1. salt
Declension
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

salt

  1. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of saltr (salty)

References

  • salt”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse salt.

Noun

salt n

  1. salt

Declension

Descendants

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin saltus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsalt/

Noun

salt n (plural salturi)

  1. leap
  2. saltation

Declension

Verb

salt

  1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of sălta

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /salt/
  • (file)

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)

  1. salty
    Antonym: (of water) söt
    Soppan är för salt
    The soup is too salty
Declension
Inflection of salt
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular salt saltare saltast
Neuter singular salt saltare saltast
Plural salta saltare saltast
Masculine plural3 salte 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 the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

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

  1. salt
    1. (uncountable) sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
    2. (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
Declension of salt 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative salt saltet salter salterna
Genitive salts saltets salters salternas
Synonyms
Derived terms

References

Anagrams

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English salt, which is the English word equivalent for Tagalog asin, which is then homophonic with English as in.

Pronunciation

Interjection

salt (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜎ᜔ᜆ᜔) (slang, dated)

  1. mild intensifier: literally
    Ang init ng araw, salt pare!
    The sun is so hot, as in [HOT] bro!

Usage notes

  • Mostly used by young people belonging in the social upper class especially in Manila.

Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sal- (to unleash).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saɫt/

Adverb

salt

  1. exclusively, only, just, absolute
    salt çoğunluk
    absolute majority

Synonyms

Further reading

  • salt”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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