Wiktionary

salad

English edit

 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:

Wikiquote

 
A salad.

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

Noun edit

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.
    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[1]:
      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 edit

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • → Scottish Gaelic: sailead
  • → Welsh: salad

Translations edit

References edit

  1. ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (1942 March 2) “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.

Anagrams edit

Cebuano edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

  • Hyphenation: sa‧lad

Noun edit

salad

  1. salad

Haitian Creole edit

Etymology edit

From French salade (“salad”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

salad

  1. salad

Spanish edit

Verb edit

salad

  1. second-person plural imperative of salar

Welsh edit

Etymology edit

From English salad, from French salade.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

salad m (plural saladau, not mutable)

  1. salad

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

  • 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
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=salad&oldid=78932530"