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a kind of sausage, originally Italian, often flavored with garlic.
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Origin:
1850–55;
<
Italian,
plural of
salame
<
Vulgar Latin
*salāmen,
equivalent to
*salā
(
re
) to salt +
Latin
-men
noun suffix;
see
sal
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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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World English Dictionary
salami
(səˈlɑːmɪ)
—
n
a highly seasoned type of sausage, usually flavoured with garlic
[C19: from Italian, plural of
salame,
from Vulgar Latin
salāre
(unattested) to salt, from Latin
sal
salt]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
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Word Origin & History
salami
"salted, flavored It. sausage," 1852, from It. salami, pl. of salame "spiced pork sausage," from V.L. *salamen, from *salare "to salt," from L. sal (gen. salis) "salt" (see
salt
).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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