Via Salaria Via Salaria The Via Salaria was an ancient Roman road in Italy. It eventually ran from Rome (from Porta Salaria of the Aurelian Walls) to "Castrum Truentinum" (Porto d'Ascoli) on the Adriatic coast, a distance of 242 km. The road also passed through Reate (Rieti) and Asculum (Ascoli Piceno). The Via Salaria owes its name to the Latin word for "salt", since it was the route by which the Sabines living nearer the Tyrrhenian sea came to fetch salt from the marshes at the mouth of the Tiber, the Campus Salinarum, while those nearer the Adriatic Sea used it to
Blue–green distinction in language that meant "marigold" a small and in fact yellow flower. The other word, "blu", refers to a darker shade of blue, and like many similar words across many European languages, derives ultimately from Germanic (see also: Italian "blu"). There is a separate word for green, "gjelbër", which derives from the Latin "galbinus", which originally meant "yellow"; the original Latin word for green on the other hand, "viridis", is the source of the Albanian word for "yellow", "verdhë". There are separate words for green ("zaļš") and blue ("zils") in Latvian. Both "zils" and "zaļš" stem from the same Proto-Indo-European word for