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ATTIC SALT

Specialty Definition: ATTIC SALT

Domain	Definition
Literature	Attic Salt Elegant and delicate wit. Salt, both in Latin and Greek, was a common term for wit, or sparkling thought well expressed: thus Cicero says, "Scipio omnes sale superabat " (Scipio surpassed all in wit). The Athenians were noted for their wit and elegant turns of thought, and hence Attic salt means wit as pointed and delicately expressed as by the Athenians. "Attic point," wit. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms within Context: ATTIC SALT

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Wit	Noun: wit, humor, wittiness; sense of humor; attic wit, attic salt; atticism; salt, esprit, point, fancy, whim, drollery, pleasantry.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translation: ATTIC SALT

Language		Translations for "ATTIC SALT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		attikai só, szellemes gúny, szellemes csipkelődés, finom szellemesség, finom irónia. (various references)

Pig Latin		atticay altsay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: ATTIC SALT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-s-t-t-t"
	-1 letter: cattails, statical.
	-2 letters: astatic, cattail.
	-3 letters: attics, casita, statal, static, ticals.
	-4 letters: alias, alist, atilt, atlas, attic, clast, clits, laics, litas, salic, scatt, stilt, tacit, tacts, tails, talas, talcs, tical, tilts.
	-5 letters: aals, acta, acts, ails, aits, alas, alit, alts, asci, casa, cast, cats, cist, clit, lacs, laic, last, lati, lats, list, lits, sail, salt.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-s-t-t-t"
	+1 letter: stalactite.
	+2 letters: stalactites, stalactitic, statistical.
	+3 letters: anticatalyst.
	+4 letters: anticatalysts, statistically, transatlantic.
	+5 letters: anticapitalist, biostatistical, cytostatically, fantasticality, metastatically, nonstatistical, postcapitalist, tractabilities.
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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography

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