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Salentine, a.
Brit. |ˈsaləntʌɪn|, |ˈsalnˌtʌɪn|, U.S. |ˈsælənˌtaɪn|
Forms: 15– Salentine, 16– Sallentine
[‹ classical Latin Salentīnus, Sallentīnus (adjective) of or relating to the Sallentini, Sallentīnī (plural noun) a people of the heel of Italy; compare -ine suffix1.]
Originally: of or relating to the Sallentini, a former people of the southern, peninsular part of what is now the Apulia region in south-eastern Italy. Now: of or designating the Salento, this area of Italy. Cf. the heel of Italy at heel n.1 6.
1567A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xv. 187 Which Spartanes buylt, and Cybaris, and Neæth salentine [L. Sallentinumque Neretum], And Thurine bay, and Emese, and éeke the pastures fyne Of Calabrye. 1661T. Ross tr. Silius Italicus Second Punick War viii. 235 Calaber, And the Salentine Cohorts [L. Sallentinaeque cohortes], added are To them; near whom Brundusium doth stand, A famous Period to th' Italian Land. 1740C. Pitt tr. Virgil æneid I. iii.121 There, brave Idomeneus, expell'd from Crete, Has fixt his Armies on Salentine Ground [L. Sallentinos campos]. 1783H. Swinburne Trav. in Two Sicilies I. 211 That sensible poet plainly indicates the lowness of the Salentine shores. 1867W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Biogr. & Mythology 161/2 His [sc. Flamen's] province was the Sallentine district. 1962M. Carlyle Awakening Southern Italy vi. 82 By 1958 it had proved practicable to supply water for irrigation in some coastal areas and in the Salentine peninsula. 2006Financial Times (Nexis) 30 Sept. 12 Unable to fully understand the Salentine dialect, I admitted with sadness that most of the talk eluded me. |