salina

See also: Salina, saliną, and šalina

English

Etymology

From Latin salīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈlaɪnə/
• Rhymes: -aɪnə

Noun

salina (plural salinas)

1. A salt marsh, or salt pond, enclosed from the sea.

Anagrams

• nasial, Aslian, Alanis, lanais, lianas, Salian

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin salīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [səˈli.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [saˈli.na]

Noun

salina f (plural salines)

1. salt pan

Further reading

• “salina” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Icelandic

Noun

salina

1. definite accusative plural of salur

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin salīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈli.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: sa‧lì‧na

Noun

salina f (plural saline)

1. salt pan, salt marsh, saltworks
2. salt mine

Related terms

• sale
• salinare

Adjective

salina

1. feminine singular of salino

References

• salina¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• Salani, insala, nasali

Latin

Etymology

From sal +‎ -īna.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /saˈliː.na/, [s̠äˈlʲiːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /saˈli.na/, [säˈliːnä]

Noun

salīna f (genitive salīnae); first declension

1. (chiefly in the plural) salt pan, salt works

Declension

First-declension noun

	singular	plural
nominative	salīna	salīnae
genitive	salīnae	salīnārum
dative	salīnae	salīnīs
accusative	salīnam	salīnās
ablative	salīnā	salīnīs
vocative	salīna	salīnae

Derived terms

• salināria

Descendants

• Aromanian: sãrinji
• Galician: Saíñas (place name)
• Italian: salina
• Megleno-Romanian: sărin'
• → Polish: salina
• → Portuguese: salina
• Romanian: sănină
• Spanish: salina

References

• salina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin salīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈli.na/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: sa‧li‧na

Noun

salina f

1. saltern, salt pan, saltworks (man-made pond where salty water is evaporated)
2. (mining) salt mine

Declension

Declension of salina

	singular	plural
nominative	salina	saliny
genitive	saliny	salin
dative	salinie	salinom
accusative	salinę	saliny
instrumental	saliną	salinami
locative	salinie	salinach
vocative	salino	saliny

Derived terms

adjective

• salinarny

 

Further reading

• salina in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈlĩ.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈlĩ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈli.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɐˈli.nɐ/

• Hyphenation: sa‧li‧na

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin salīna.

Noun

salina f (plural salinas)

1. salt pan (flat expanse of ground naturally covered with salt)
2. saltworks (place where salt is refined and prepared commercially)

Etymology 2

Adjective

salina

1. feminine singular of salino

Etymology 3

Verb

salina

1. inflection of salinar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish salina, from Latin salīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈlina/ [saˈli.na]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: sa‧li‧na

Noun

salina f (plural salinas)

1. salt pan, salt marsh, salt works
2. salt mine

Related terms

• sal
• salado
• salar
• salinero
• salino

 

Adjective

salina

1. feminine singular of salino

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983) “sal”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 131

Further reading

• “salino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28