saleiro

From sal (“salt”), from Latin sal, and the suffix -eiro.

• IPA^(key): /saˈlejɾo̝/

saleiro m (plural saleiros)

1. salt cellar; salt shaker
   • 1373, Enrique Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 191:

     et dous saleyros para sal et quatro baçios grandes dstanno

     two salt cellars for holding salt and four large bowls of tin

2. trough used for salting meat (for its preservation)

• sal

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “saleyro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “saleiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “saleiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “saleiro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From sal +‎ -eiro. Piecewise doublet of salário.

• Hyphenation: sa‧lei‧ro

saleiro m (plural saleiros)

1. salt cellar; salt shaker (a small container designed to hold salt and facilitate sprinkling)

• sal