Salacia

See also: salacia

English

Proper noun

Salacia

2. (Roman mythology) The goddess of saltwater and the deep.
4. A Kuiper belt object, once thought to maybe be a dwarf planet.

Further reading

• Salacia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• aclasia

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Latin

Etymology

From salum (“sea”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /saˈlaː.ki.a/, [s̠äˈɫ̪äːkiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /saˈla.t͡ʃi.a/, [säˈläːt͡ʃiä]

Proper noun

Salācia f sg (genitive Salāciae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) the goddess of the sea, wife of Neptune
2. a town of the Turdetani in Lusitania

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Salācia
Genitive	Salāciae
Dative	Salāciae
Accusative	Salāciam
Ablative	Salāciā
Vocative	Salācia
Locative	Salāciae

Descendants

• Translingual:

References

• “Salacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Salacia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Salacia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly