Where does “saline” come from?

Saline comes from Middle French salin, from Latin sal meaning "salt," from Proto-Indo-European seh₂l-.

saline (English): Containing salt; salty; Resembling salt; Water...

Definitions

  1. Containing salt; salty; Resembling salt; Water...

Ancestry of “saline”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishsalyne—
2Middle Frenchsalin—
3Latinsālsalt
4Proto-Italicsālssalt
5Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

Words derived from “saline”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →