saline - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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PIE word
*sḗh₂l

From Middle English salyne, from Medieval Latin salīna and Middle French salin, from Latin sal (“salt”).

saline (comparative more saline, superlative most saline)

  1. Containing salt; salty.
  2. Resembling salt.
    a saline taste

salty

saline (countable and uncountable, plural salines)

  1. Water containing dissolved salt.
  2. A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.
    Coordinate terms: saltern, salt works

place where salt is collected

saline

  1. feminine singular of salin

saline f pl

  1. feminine plural of salino

saline f pl

  1. plural of salina

saline

  1. inflection of salinar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative