The corpus record — Latin

salmacidus

salmacidus · adj

having a salt and sour taste

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

salmăcĭdus — Lewis & Short

salmăcĭdus, a, um, adj.contr. from salgama, salma, and acidus, of water,

I having a salt and sour taste, salso-acid: salmacidum a(lmuro/n, salmacidus a(lmuro/s, a(lw/dhs, Gloss. Philox. (post-Aug.): aquae (with nitrosae), Plin. 31, 3, 22, § 36: aqua (opp. dulcis), Plin. Val. 5, 41 fin.: fluvii, Flor. 4, 10, 8.

In the wild

salmacidas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.3.p2

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.