1. salt, briny , (Odyssey by Homer)

2. of taste, salt, brackish , (Thucydides)

3. metaphorically bitter, distasteful , Lat. amarus, (Plato Philosophus), etc.; ἁλμυρὰ κλαίειν to weep bitterly , (Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus) (ML)