Where does “saladina” come from?
saladina (Catalan) comes from Swahili saladi, from English salad, from Middle English salade, from Old French salade, from Italian salada, from Vulgar Latin salata, from Latin Salo, from Latin saliō — salt.
saladina (Catalan): sea lavender one of various salt-tolerant flowering plants in the genus
Definitions
- sea lavender one of various salt-tolerant flowering plants in the genus
Ancestry of “saladina”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swahili | saladi | salad |
| 2 | English | salad | A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold... |
| 3 | Middle English | salade | salad; An ingredient in a salad |
| 4 | Old French | salade | — |
| 5 | Italian | salada | — |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | salata | salted |
| 7 | Latin | Salo | that flows near Bilbilis and then into the Iberus, now the Jalón |
| 8 | Latin | saliō | to leap, jump, bound |
| 9 | Latin | sāl | salt |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | sāls | salt |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | *sḗh₂l | salt |