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salle

See also: sallé and šalle

English

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Borrowed from French salle. Doublet of sala and sale.

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Noun

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salle (plural salles)

  1. A fencing school.
    • 2001, Nick Evangelista, Anita Evangelista, The Woman Fencer:
      Your local fencing salle is a good place to relax and unwind and let the cares of the day take a backseat for a while. Meeting someone on the fencing strip, blade in hand, can become your only concern for two or three hours a couple of times a week.

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salle

  1. partitive plural of sall

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French salle, from Old French sale (“a large room, large reception hall”), from Frankish *sal (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”). More at salon.

Cognates:

Cognate with Old High German sal (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”) (whence German Saal), Old Norse salr (“room, hall”) (whence Icelandic salur), Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”). Cognate with Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish sala.

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salle f (plural salles)

  1. hall
  2. room (in a house)
  3. front of house (public area of a restaurant, theatre, etc.)
    Coordinate term: arrière-salle
    en salle ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  4. sports hall
  5. (informal) gym
    aller à la salle ― to go to the gym

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Descendants

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  • Haitian Creole: sal, lasal
  • → Italian: sala
  • → Vietnamese: xan

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Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French sale (“a large room, large reception hall”), from Frankish *sal (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”).

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salle f (plural salles)

  1. room

Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French sale (“a large room, large reception hall”), from Frankish *sal (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”).

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salle f (plural salles)

  1. (Jersey) living room

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Noun

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salle

  1. inflection of salla (“dart; porcupine”):
    1. locative singular
    2. accusative plural

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Verb

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salle

  1. inflection of sallar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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