sale
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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”).
NounEdit
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.
TroponymsEdit
- (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 termsEdit
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Etymology 2Edit
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.
NounEdit
sale (plural sales)
AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
NounEdit
sale
CorsicanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin salem, accusative of sāl.
NounEdit
sale ?
ReferencesEdit
- “sale” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle French sale, from Old French sale (“dull, dirty”), from Frankish *salo (“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.
AdjectiveEdit
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
- Un sale type ― A vile man.
- Synonyms: méprisable, vil
- Hyponyms: dégoûtant, répugnant, sordide
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From saler.
VerbEdit
sale
- inflection of saler:
Further readingEdit
- “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.
ItalianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
sale m (plural sali)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- sale in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
NounEdit
sale f pl
Etymology 3Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
VerbEdit
sale
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
NounEdit
sale
ReferencesEdit
- “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
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
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”).
AdjectiveEdit
sale m or f
Derived termsEdit
- sale maladie (“venereal disease”)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse sǫðla, from Proto-Germanic *sadulōną.
VerbEdit
sale (present tense saler, past tense salte or salet, past participle salt or salet, present participle salende, imperative sal)
- (transitive) to saddle
ReferencesEdit
- “sale” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
AnagramsEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- sala (a infinitive)
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse sǫðla, from Proto-Germanic *sadulōną.
VerbEdit
sale (present tense salar, past tense sala, past participle sala, passive infinitive salast, present participle salande, imperative sale/sal)
- (transitive) to saddle
ReferencesEdit
- “sale” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
AnagramsEdit
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Frankish *sali (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”).
NounEdit
sale f (oblique plural sales, nominative singular sale, nominative plural sales)
- room (subsection of a building)
- circa 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
- […] que la soe amie
- circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
DescendantsEdit
RomanianEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
sale
Serbo-CroatianEdit
NounEdit
sale (Cyrillic spelling сале)
- inflection of sala:
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From salir. For the interjection, sale is part of a former rhyming phrase, sale y vale; see valer.
PronunciationEdit
InterjectionEdit
sale
Derived termsEdit
VerbEdit
sale
- inflection of salar:
- third-person singular present indicative of salir
VenetianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin sal, salem.
NounEdit
sale f
- salt (sodium chloride, non-chemical usage)
sale m (plural sali)
WestrobothnianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Low German sä̂lich, older form of sêlich, from Old Saxon sālig, from Proto-West Germanic *sālīg.
AdjectiveEdit
sale
- (Christianity) Blessed, saved.
- he han skull få vaḷ sale ― [so] that he would be saved