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
Latin obscenity from Latin "cauda/cōda" "tail". The Portuguese "penis", first attested in the 10th century, is thought to derive from a vulgar Latin word "*caraculum" "a little stake". The Italian "" has no obvious Latin ancestor. A number of different suggestions have been made for its origin, but none has yet gained general acceptance. The basic word for the testicles in Latin was "cōleī" (singular: "cōleus"). It appears to have had an alternative form *"cōleōnēs" (singular: "cōleō"), from which the Spanish "cojones" and other Romance forms are derived. (One late Latin source has the spelling "culiones"). The etymology of "cōleī" is obscure.