Etymology

salami

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Today it means: A large cured meat sausage of Italian origin, served in slices. Full definition →

Italian salami ← Latin sal
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromsal
  2. Italian · borrowed fromsalami
  3. English todaysalami

From Italian salami, plural of salame (“salami”), from sale (“salt”), from Latin sal.

Words from the same roots

Latinsal all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.