SALIS

adj. salic

adv (geh)

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adv (geh) with a pinch [or grain] of salt

cum gra·no sa·lis [kʊm ʼgra:no ʼza:lɪs] adv

( geh) with a pinch [or grain] of salt

• Think before you leap, or look before you leap

• With a grain of salt. (Pliny the Elder?)

1. taken with a grain of salt Am. Aus. fig.

2. taken with a pinch of salt Br. Aus. fig.

salis

salt, wit.

sal, sălis ( neutr. collat. form of the nom. sălĕ, Enn. ap. Gell. 2, 26, or Ann. v. 378 Vahl.; Varr. ap. Non. 223, 17; also, in the regular form sometimes neutr. in sing., v. infra, I.; but plur. always sales, m.; cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, 697 sq.; dat. plur.: infusis salis, Fabian. ap. Charis. p. 82 P.), m. [root sal-, to stream, flow; cf. hals; perh. also found in insula, salix].

Lit., salt.

Masc.: ex sale, qui apud Carthaginienses fit, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 659 P.:

salem candidum sic facito,

id. R. R. 88; Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 8; Col. 6, 17, 7; 8, 6 Schneid. N. cr.; 12, 6, 2; 12, 21, 2 al.; Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 73; Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 95; id. Curc. 4, 4, 6; id. Pers. 3, 3, 25; Sall. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 82 P., and ap. Prisc. p. 644 ib.; Hor. S. 1, 5, 46 et saep.—Prov.:

salem cum pane edit,

Plin. 31, 8, 41, § 89.—

Neutr.: nunc vides in conviviis ita poni et sal et mel, Varr. ap. Charis. p. 82 P.; so, aliud, Fabian. ib. p. 82 P.;

tritum,

Veg. 2, 24, 4 al.; v. also infra, II.—

Doubtful gen.:

multos modios salis,

Cic. Lael. 19, 67:

(caseum) parco sale reponunt,

Verg. G. 3, 403; Caes. B. C. 2, 37:

salis vendendi arbitrium,

Liv. 29, 6; 45, 29; Hor. S. 1, 3, 14; 2, 2, 17; 2, 4, 74; Col. 7, 8, 5; Cels. 2, 24; Plin. 31, 7, 42, § 91.—

Plur.:

quin aspergi solent sales: melior fossilis quam marinus,

Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 6; Col. 7, 4, 8; 8, 6, 1; Pall. 9, 2 Mai; id. Nov. 19; Fabian. ap. Charis. p. 82 P.; Ov. M. 15, 286.—

Meton.

Poet., the salt water, brine, sea.

Sing., Enn. 1. 1.:

supra rorem salis edita pars est remorum,

Lucr. 4, 438:

et sale tabentes artus in litore ponunt,

Verg. A. 1, 173; 1, 35; 3, 385; 5, 848; 5, 866; 6, 697; 10, 214; Ov. P. 1, 1, 70; Val. Fl. 4, 722.—

Plur.:

sales amari,

Ov. M. 15, 286:

aequorei,

Luc. 10, 257.—

A speck on precious stones shaped like a grain of salt. — Sing.:

sal,

Plin. 37, 6, 22, § 83; 37, 8, 37, § 117; 37, 2, 10, § 28.— Plur.:

sales,

Plin. 37, 2, 8, § 22.—

Trop.

Intellectual acuteness, good sense, shrewdness, cunning, wit, facetiousness, sarcasm, a witticism, witty saying (class. in sing. and plur.;

syn.: lepos, facetiae, festivitas): (sal) adeo necessarium elementum est, ut transierit intellectus ad voluptates animi quoque. Nam ita sales appellantur, omnisque vitae lepos et summa hilaritas laborumque requies non alio magis vocabulo constat,

Plin. 31, 7, 41, § 88.

Sing.:

qui habet salem, quod in te est,

Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 10; cf.:

nulla venustas, Nulla in tam magno est corpore mica salis,

Cat. 86, 4:

Caesar inusitatum nostris oratoribus leporem quendam et salem est consecutus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 23, 98; cf. id. N. D. 2, 29, 74:

sale vero et facetiis Caesar vicit omnis,

id. Off. 1, 37, 133:

(litterae) tum humanitatis sparsae sale,

id. Att. 1, 13, 1:

qui (versus) dum denique habent salem ac leporem,

Cat. 16, 7:

P. Scipio omnes sale facetiisque superabat,

Cic. Brut. 34, 128; cf.:

argutiae facetissimi salis,

Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 117:

salis satis est, sannionum parum, Cic Fam. 9, 16, 10: in quo mihi videtur specimen fuisse humanitatis, salis, suavitatis, leporis,

id. Tusc. 5, 19, 55:

(Lucilius) sale multo Urbem defricuit,

Hor. S. 1, 10, 3; cf.

of the same: acerbitas et abundantia salis,

Quint. 10, 1, 94:

hic delectatur iambis, Ille Bioneïs sermonibus et sale nigro,

i. e. biting wit, sarcasm, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 60; Cat. 13, 5:

qui plurimum in scribendo et salis haberet et fellis nec candoris minus,

Plin. Ep. 3, 21, 1. —

Neutr. (ante-class.): quicquid loquitur, sal merum est, Afran. ap. Prisc. p. 659 P.; so, (puella) Charitôn mia, tota merum sal, Lucr. 4, 1162.—

Plur.:

Romani veteres atque urbani sales,

Cic. Fam. 9, 15, 2:

vestri proavi Plautinos Laudavere sales,

Hor. A. P. 271; Sen. Vit. Beat. 27, 2:

periculosi sales,

id. Tranq. 1, 4:

libaboque tuos, scite Menandre, sales,

Prop. 3 (4), 21, 28:

huic generi orationis aspergentur etiam sales, qui in dicendo minimum quantum valent: quorum duo genera sunt, unum facetiarum, alterum dicacitatis,

Cic. Or. 26, 87; cf. Quint. 6, 3, 15; 10, 1, 117:

(Ciceronem) in salibus aliquando frigidum,

id. 12, 10, 12:

a salibus suffusis felle refugi,

Ov. Tr. 2, 565:

protervi sales,

Stat. S. 1, 6, 6:

salibus vehemens intra pomoeria natis,

Juv. 9, 11.—

(Borrowed from the use of salt as a relish.) Good taste, elegance:

tectum antiquitus constitutum plus salis quam sumptūs habebat,

Nep. Att. 13, 2.—

Sharpness, pungency, stimulus, incentive:

quae (sc. calor, sanguis) aviditatem naturali sale augent,

Plin. 10, 72, 93, § 198.

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salissant, e [salisɑ̃, ɑ̃t]

[étoffe] which shows the dirt ; [travail] messy

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salissante salisɑ̃, ɑ̃t adjectif

1) [couleur, tissu] which shows the dirt (épith, après n)

2) [travail] dirty

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1) (tissu) which shows the dirt

2) (métier) dirty, messy

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salissant, salissante adj

1 ( qui devient sale) [couleur, tissu] which shows the dirt ( épith, après n); le blanc est salissant white shows the dirt;

2 ( qui rend sale) [travail] dirty.

( féminin salissante) [salisɑ̃, ɑ̃t] adjectif

1. [qui se salit]

c'est très salissant [couleur, vêtement] it marks easily

2. [qui salit - travail] dirty, messy

mīca, ae, f. [root smic-; Gr. smikros, mikros; cf. micula; O. Germ. smahan, to belittle], a crumb, little bit, morsel, grain ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Lit.:

mica panis,

Petr. 42:

auri,

Lucr. 1, 839:

marmoris,

Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 68:

salis,

a grain of salt, id. 22, 14, 16, § 37:

amomi,

id. 12, 18, 41, § 83:

saliens (i. e. salis) mica,

Hor. C. 3, 23, 12:

tus in micas friatur,

Plin. 12, 14, 32, § 65:

de micis puerorum,

Vulg. Marc. 7, 28.—

Transf.

A small diningroom, Mart. 2, 59, 1; Sen. Ep. 51, 12.—

In gen., a little bit, a grain:

nulla in tam magno est corpore mica salis,

a grain of sense, Cat. 86, 3.

Präp.: cum grano salis geh. with a pinch of salt; cum laude PÄD. cum laude, with distinction; cum tempore c. t.

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cum präp:

cum grano salis geh with a pinch of salt;

cum laude SCHULE cum laude, with distinction;

cum tempore → c. t.

mŏdĭus, ii ( gen. plur. modiūm:

qui CCCC. modium quinque milia,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 36, § 83:

modiorum,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 72), m. ( neutr. collat. form: mŏdĭum, ii, n., Cato, R. R. 58; so in plur.:

modia vicena,

Plin. 18, 16, 43, § 145) [modus], the Roman corn-measure, a measure, peck, containing sixteen sextarii, or the sixth part of a Greek medimnus (class.):

salis modium,

Cato, R. R. 58: tritici modius, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 10, 30:

siligneae farinae modius,

Plin. 18, 9, 20, § 88:

modium populo dare asse,

Cic. Off. 2, 17, 58:

agri Leontini decumae tertio anno venierunt tritici medimnum XXXVI., hoc est tritici modium CC. et XVI. milibus,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 46, § 110:

non minorem quam decem milium modiorum navem fabricare,

Ulp. Fragm. 3, 6.—

Prov.: verum illud est, quod dicitur, multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitiae munus expletum sit,

Cic. Lael. 19, 67: modio nummos metiri, to measure one's money by the peck, said of a rich woman, Petr. 37; cf.:

dives, ut metiretur nummos,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 95:

ego nunc mihi modium mille esse argenti velim,

Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 9; Juv. 3, 220:

pleno modio,

in full measure, abundantly, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 16; cf.:

argumentum vobis demensum dabo, non modo neque trimodio, verum ipso horreo,

Plaut. Men. prol. 15:

servorum ventres modio castigat iniquo,

with short measure, Juv. 14, 126.—Also as a measure for other things, a peck:

metiri modio oleario,

Cato, R. R. 144:

ut metientibus dimidium (anulorum aureorum) super tres modios explesse,

Liv. 23, 12; Pall. 6, 4, 1.—

Transf.

Among surveyors, the third part of a jugerum, Auct. de Limit. p. 264 and 312 Goes.; Pall. Mai. 4 al. —

The socket, step, shoe in which the mast of a ship stands, Isid. Orig. 19, 2, 8.