Buff Salami Roll
The word salami in English comes from the plural form of the Italian salame. It is a singular or plural word in English for cured meats of a European (particularly Italian) style. In Romanian, Bulgarian, and Turkish, the word is salam; in Hungarian, it is szalámi;in Czech it is salám while Polish, French, German, and Dutch have the same word as English. The name may be derived from the Latin word salumen.
The word originates from the word sale (“salt”) with a termination (-ame) that in Italian indicates a collective noun. Thus, it originally meant “all kinds of salted (meats)”. The Italian tradition of cured meats includes several styles, and the word salame soon specifically meant only the most popular kind—a salted and spiced meat, ground and extruded into an elongated, thin casing (usually cleaned animal intestine), then left to undergo natural fermentation and drying for days, months, or even years.