ἁλμῠρ-ός, ά, όν,
(ἅλμη) salt, briny, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus only in 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”, and always in phrase ἁ. ὕδωρ] Refs 8th c.BC+] salt sea-water, [[ 4.511] Refs], etc.; πόντος[[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 107, 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 26; θάλασσα 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 25.10; καθ᾽ ἁ. ἅλα 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 53, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 76; βένθεα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.57] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ποταμός, of the Hellespont, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.35. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 in Prose, of taste, salt, γίνεται τὸ στόμα ἁ.[[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut.(Sp.)” 44] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὄψα ἀ.[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.31, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 1.56; αἷμα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 84a] Refs 5th c.BC+] assuming variant; of drinking-water, brackish, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.26; ofsoil, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 6.10.1, LXX.Jer.17.6] LXX+5th c.BC+]; opposed to μῶρος (insipid), [[ “Comica Adespota” 596. ] Refs]
__3 metaphorically, bitter, distasteful, γειτόνημα[[ 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 116, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 705a; ἀκοή “Phdr.” 243d; λόγοι 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.121e] Refs 7th c.BC+]; ἁλμυρὰ κλαίειν weep bitterly, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 23.34; ἁλμυρὸν καταπτύσαι 3rd c.BC: Cercidas Iambographus 19.37. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__3.b piquant, ἁ. καὶ δριμύ[[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.685e.] Refs 1st c.AD+]