Etymology

salinas

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Today it means: A city, the county seat of Monterey County, California, United States. Full definition →

Spanish Salinas
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  1. Spanish · borrowed fromSalinas
  2. English todaySalinas

Borrowed from Spanish Salinas, a metonymic occupational surname for a worker in a salt mine.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.