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sal

Nomen masculinum CEFR C2
[ˈsaːɫ]

Definitiones

  1. salt
  2. wit
  3. brine, salt water, the sea

Aequivalentia

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Exempla

“cum grānō salis”

with a grain of salt

“non sal oxyporumve caseusve”

2015 translation by D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Christopher A. Parrott no salt, no condiment, no cheese?

“ante, deōs hominī quod conciliāre valēret,”

Formerly, what served to win the favor of the gods to man was emmer and the glittering grain of pure salt.

“Dodra ex dodrante est. Sic collige: ius aqua vinum”

1921 translation by Hugh G. Evelyn White Dodra ("nines") is from dodrans (nine-twelfths). Thus compound: broth, water, wine, salt, oil, bread, honey, pepper, herbs: there's nine!

“Sal, oleum, chrisma, cereus, chrismale, saliva, / flatus: virtutem baptismatis ista figurant. / Hec cum patrinis non mutant esse, sed ornant.”

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“vēla dabant laetī, et spūmās salis aere ruēbant”

[The Trojans] were gladly spreading their sails, and churning the foam of the salt water with their bronze [prows].

Gradus CEFR

C2
Peritia
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