salad

English

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Etymology

PIE word
*séh₂ls

From Middle English salade, from Old French salade, borrowed from Northern Italian salada, salata (compare insalata), from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from *salāre, from Latin saliō, from sal (salt). Vegetables were seasoned with brine or salty oil-and-vinegar dressings during Roman times.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: săʹləd IPA(key): /ˈsæl.əd/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • (Southern US) IPA(key): /ˈsæl.ɪd/
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈsæl.ɪt/[1][2]
  • Rhymes: -æləd

Noun

salad (countable and uncountable, plural salads)

  1. A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
    • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
      Lafeu. ’Twas a good lady, ’twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb.
      Clown. Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the salad, or rather, the herb of grace.
    chicken salad
    We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.
    1. Especially, such a mixture whose principal base is greens, most especially lettuce.
      romaine salad
      kale salad
  2. A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.
    sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment
  3. (idiomatic) Any varied blend or mixture.
    • 2021 October 16, Gurvinder Singh, “Why Pakistan will fail”, in Guruwonder[2]:
      Rebuffed by the Arabs and then the Iranians for trying to be part of them and their societies, Pakistan is just a hotchpotch salad of people supposedly bound together by the myth of Muslim 'Ummah'.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Scottish Gaelic: sailead
  • Welsh: salad

Translations

References

  1. ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (2 March 1942) “3. The Consonants”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 6, page 98.
  2. ^ Grandgent, C. H. (1899) “From Franklin to Lowell”, in James W. Bright, editor, Proceedings of the Modern Language Association[1], volume 14, number 2, Modern Language Association of America, →DOI, page 238

Anagrams

Cebuano

Etymology

From English salad, borrowed from French salade, borrowed from Northern Italian salada, salata, from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from *salāre, from Latin saliō, from sal (salt).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: sa‧lad

Noun

salad

  1. salad

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French salade (salad).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /salad/

Noun

salad

  1. salad

Indonesian

Etymology

PIE word
*séh₂ls

Borrowed from English salad, from Middle English salade, from Old French salade, from Northern Italian salada, salata (compare insalata), from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from *salāre, from Latin saliō, from sal (salt). Doublet of selada and selat.

Pronunciation

Noun

salad (plural salad-salad)

  1. (cooking) salad

Alternative forms

Hyponyms

  • salad bayam
  • salad kentang
  • salad mentimun

Further reading

Spanish

Verb

salad

  1. second-person plural imperative of salar

Welsh

Etymology

From English salad, from French salade.

Pronunciation

Noun

salad m (plural saladau, not mutable)

  1. salad

Derived terms

  • salad ffrwythau (fruit salad)

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “salad”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies