salgar

See also: sälgar

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese, from a Vulgar Latin *salicāre, from Latin sāl (“salt”); cf. saliō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /salˈɣaɾ/

Verb

1. (transitive) to preserve in salt

   Para a súa preservación, o porco é salgado nunha salgadeira. ― For preserving it, pork is salted inside a special trough.

   • 1291, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, p. 79:

     La quartillos de salgada et xx quartillos de fresca [...] et disso que da fresca marmara iiii quartillos ao salgar

     50 quarters of salted [fish] and 20 quarters of fresh [fish] [...] and he said that the fresh one diminished 4 quarter after salting

2. (transitive) to add salt

   Synonym: salpresar

Related terms

• sal
• salmoura

Derived terms

• desalgar
• salgado
• Salgado
• salgadeira

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• “salg” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “salgar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

---

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from a Vulgar Latin *salicāre, from Latin sāl (“salt”); cf. saliō.

Verb

1. (transitive) to salt (to add salt to)

Related terms

• sal
• salgado
• salgação
• salmoura