A Salted Thing
The word salami has aged almost as long as the sausage itself. It comes from Italian salami, plural of salame, meaning a cured, salted sausage. That word descends from Vulgar Latin salāmen ‘a salted thing’, from salāre ‘to salt’, and sal ‘salt’. From Roman preservation to modern delicatessen, the name still carries its ancient trace of salt.
