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saline

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See also: Saline

English

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Etymology

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

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saline (comparative more saline, superlative most saline)

  1. Containing salt; salty.
  2. Resembling salt.
    a saline taste

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Noun

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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.

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French

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saline

  1. feminine singular of salin

Italian

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Pronunciation

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

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saline f pl

  1. feminine plural of salino

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saline f pl

  1. plural of salina

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Verb

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saline

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