sale
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English sale, from Old English sala (“act of selling, sale”), from Old Norse sala (“sale”), from Proto-Germanic *salō (“delivery”), from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- (“to grab”).
Noun edit
sale (countable and uncountable, plural sales)
- An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.
- He celebrated after the sale of company.
- (Short for discount sale) The sale of goods at reduced prices.
- They are having a clearance sale: 50% off.
- The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.
Troponyms edit
- (selling of goods at reduced prices): cut-rate sale, sales event
- (act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder): auction, public sale
Derived terms edit
- bake sale
- bargain and sale
- bill of sale
- blowout sale
- boot sale
- bring-and-buy sale
- car boot sale
- Cinderella sale
- conquest sale
- contract of sale
- distressed sale
- distress sale
- drive sale
- e-sales
- estate sale
- fire sale
- fire-sale
- first-sale doctrine
- first sale doctrine
- flash sale
- for sale
- garage sale
- goods and sales tax
- gross sales
- in the sales
- jumble sale
- net sales
- off-sale
- on sale
- plate sale
- point of sale
- roup sale
- rummage sale
- sale and leaseback
- sale-goer
- sale journal
- sale-leaseback
- sale of work
- sale on approval
- sale or return
- sale price
- sale-proof
- sales advisor
- sales assistant
- sales associate
- sales clerk
- sales floor
- sales force
- sales ledger
- salesman
- sales pitch
- sales profit
- sales rep
- sales representative
- sales resistance
- sales slip
- sales tax
- sales team
- sale yard
- scavenger sale
- seat sale
- short sale
- special order sale
- system sales
- tag sale
- up for sale
- wash sale
- white elephant sale
- white sale
- yard sale
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English sale, sal, from Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“home, dwelling, village”). Cognate with West Frisian seal, Dutch zaal, German Saal, Swedish sal, Icelandic salur, Lithuanian sala (“village”). Doublet of sala and salle. Related also to salon, saloon.
Noun edit
sale (plural sales)
Anagrams edit
Afrikaans edit
Noun edit
sale
Corsican edit
Etymology edit
From Latin salem, accusative of sāl.
Noun edit
sale ?
References edit
- “sale” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Middle French sale, from Old French sale (“dull, dirty”), from Frankish *salu (“dull, dirty grey”), from Proto-Germanic *salwaz (“dusky, dark, muddy”), from Proto-Indo-European *salw-, *sal- (“dirt, dirty”). Cognate with Old High German salo (“dull, dirty grey”), Old English salu (“dark, dusky”), Old Norse sǫlr (“yellowish”). More at sallow.
Adjective edit
sale (plural sales)
- dirty
- bad, unpleasant
- Le prof est capable de me fiche une sale note rien que parce qu’il m’a aperçue en ville le mercredi.
- The teacher can give me a bad grade just because he saw me in town on Wednesday.
- vile, despicable
- Synonyms: méprisable, vil
- Hyponyms: dégoûtant, répugnant, sordide
- Un sale type ― A vile man.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
From saler.
Verb edit
sale
- inflection of saler:
Further reading edit
- “sale” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “sale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
sale m (plural sali)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- sale in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
sale f pl
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
sale
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Noun edit
sale
References edit
- “sale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sale”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
- “sale”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Old French sale (“dull, dirty”), from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *salwaz (“dusky, dark, muddy”), from Proto-Indo-European *salw-, *sal- (“dirt, dirty”).
Adjective edit
sale m or f
Derived terms edit
- sale maladie (“venereal disease”)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse sǫðla, from Proto-Germanic *sadulōną.
Verb edit
sale (present tense saler, past tense salte or salet, past participle salt or salet, present participle salende, imperative sal)
- (transitive) to saddle
References edit
- “sale” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Anagrams edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
- sala (a infinitive)
Etymology edit
From Old Norse sǫðla, from Proto-Germanic *sadulōną.
Verb edit
sale (present tense salar, past tense sala, past participle sala, passive infinitive salast, present participle salande, imperative sale/sal)
- (transitive) to saddle
References edit
- “sale” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams edit
Old French edit
Etymology edit
From Frankish *sali (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”).
Noun edit
sale oblique singular, f (oblique plural sales, nominative singular sale, nominative plural sales)
- room (subsection of a building)
- c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
- […] que la soe amie
Est la plus bele de la sale[.]
- […] The his wife
Is the most beautiful in the room- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants edit
Romanian edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
sale
Serbo-Croatian edit
Noun edit
sale (Cyrillic spelling сале)
- inflection of sala:
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From salir. For the interjection, sale is part of a former rhyming phrase, sale y vale; see valer.
Interjection edit
sale
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
sale
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
sale
- inflection of salar:
Venetian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin sal, salem.
Noun edit
sale f
- salt (sodium chloride, non-chemical usage)
Noun edit
sale m (plural sali)