salle
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French salle. Doublet of sala and sale.
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salle (plural salles)
- 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
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Etymology edit
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.
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)
- hall
- room (in a house)
- front of house (public area of a restaurant, theatre, etc.)
- sports hall
Derived terms edit
- faire salle comble
- fille de salle
- garçon de salle
- salle à manger
- salle de bain
- salle de bains
- salle de bal
- salle de classe
- salle de concert
- salle de jeux
- salle de rédaction
- salle de réunion
- salle de séjour
- salle des machines
- salle des pas perdus
- salle des urgences
- salle d’accouchement
- salle d’armes
- salle d’attente
- salle d’audience
- salle d’op
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Further reading edit
- “salle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Etymology edit
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)
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Etymology edit
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)
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salle
- inflection of salla (“dart; porcupine”):
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salle
- inflection of sallar: