The corpus record — Latin

sălillum

little salt-cellar

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What it meant

1. salillum — de Vaan

salillum 'little salt-cellar' (PL+), salarius Of salt' (Varro+); sallere [ppp. salsurn] 'to salt' (Lucil.+), sallire 'to salt' (Cato+), sakus 'salted, salty' (PL+), sabamentum 'salted food, esp. fish' (Ter.+), salsura 'salting, pickling' (PL+); salum 'sea' (Enn.+), — [de Vaan, s.v. salillum, p. 549]

2. sălillum — Lewis & Short

sălillum, i, n.dim.for salinulum, from salinum,

I a little salt-cellar, Cat. 23, 19.—In comic lang.: salillum animae, perh. little measure, brief span of life, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 91.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.