salsus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →salo, salere, -, salsus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
salt, salt down, preserve with salt; sprinkle before sacrifice;
nom. sg. perf. pass. part. - Entry →salsus, salsa -um, salsior -or -us, salsissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
salted, salty, preserved in salt; briny; witty, funny, salted wit humor;
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...propulsa suo condensa coiret, tam magis expressus salsus de corpore sudor augebat mare manando camposque natantis, et tanto..."Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...bracchia, nutans, distorquens oculos, ut me eriperet. male salsus ridens dissimulare; meum iecur urere bilis. 'certe nescio quid..."
