saline

See also: Saline

English

Etymology

From Middle English salyne, from Medieval Latin salīna and Middle French salin, from Latin sal (“salt”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈseɪ.laɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈseɪliːn/

Adjective

saline (comparative more saline, superlative most saline)

1. Containing salt; salty.
2. Resembling salt.

   a saline taste

Derived terms

• phosphosaline
• Saline County

Translations

salty

• Bulgarian: солен (bg) (solen)
• Catalan: salí (ca)
• Czech: solný (cs), slaný (cs)
• Finnish: suolainen (fi)
• French: salin (fr)
• Galician: salino (gl)
• German: salzhaltig (de)
• Greek: αλατούχος (el) m or f (alatoúchos), αλατώδης (el) m or f (alatódis)
• Irish: salanda
• Italian: salino (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: saltholdig (no)

  Nynorsk: salthaldig

• Persian: شور (fa) (šur)
• Polish: słony (pl) m, zasolony (pl) m
• Portuguese: salino (pt)
• Romanian: salin (ro)
• Russian: соляно́й (ru) (soljanój), солево́й (ru) (solevój), солёный (ru) (soljónyj) (salty)
• Spanish: salino (es)
• Swedish: salthaltig (sv)
• Turkish: tuzlu (tr)
• Ukrainian: соло́ний (solónyj)

Noun

saline (countable and uncountable, plural salines)

1. Water containing dissolved salt.
2. A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.

Synonyms

• (water containing dissolved salt): saline solution

Derived terms

• normal saline
• saline flush

Translations

solution — see saline solution

Anagrams

• A-lines, Selina, aliens, alines, laines, lianes, lisena, silane, slaine

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.lin/

• Audio (Canada):

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Adjective

saline

1. feminine singular of salin

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

saline f pl

1. feminine plural of salino

Noun

saline f pl

1. plural of salina

Anagrams

• Lesina, lesina

Portuguese

Verb

saline

1. inflection of salinar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative