The corpus record — Latin

salinum

salinum · n

a salt-cellar

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Where it lives

Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 1 · 1.5/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 1 · 0.59/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
De Bello Civili 1 · 0.31/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Naturalis Historia 6 · 0.15/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

sălīnum — Lewis & Short

sălīnum, i, n.sal (sc. vas;

I masc. collat. form, plur., sălīni, Varr. ap. Non. 546, 14), a salt-cellar, Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 15; Hor. C. 2, 16, 14; Pers. 3, 25; 5, 138; also used at sacrifices, Liv. 26, 36; Val. Max. 4, 4, 3; Arn. 2, 91.—Prov.: salinum cum sale obsignare, Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 15.

In the wild

salinis Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.37.5
salinum Horace, Carmina 2.16
salinum Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.26.36.6
salinis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.103.p5
salinum Persius, Saturae 5.138
salinum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.12.p1

6 of 18 attestations shown.

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.