Jump to content

salad

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
Wikiquote
A salad.

Alternative forms

[edit]
  • sallet [16th–19th c.]

Etymology

[edit]
PIE word
*sḗh₂l
Etymology tree
Italian salatader.
Old French saladebor.
Middle English salade
English salad

    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)

    2. A food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often involving two or more such ingredients mixed together, with larger items cut or torn into small pieces, and usually with a dressing or binding; usually served cold or at room temperature, as a dish or savoury sandwich filling.
      • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
        Lafeu. ’Twas a good lady, ’twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb.
        Clown. Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the salad, or rather, the herb of grace.
      • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 213:
        At various times and in different areas salads, compounded of meats, spices, tubers have been treated as of aphrodisiac value.
      We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.
    3. One or more raw vegetables of the kind used in salads; typically greens (especially lettuce).
      sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment
      I prefer a bit of salad on my burger.
      Buy a bag of salad at the supermarket.
    4. (idiomatic) Any mixture of different things.
      word salad
      - incoherent speech
      • 2021 October 16, Gurvinder Singh, “Why Pakistan will fail”, in Guruwonder‎[2], archived from the original on 12 December 2023:
        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'.

    Usage notes

    [edit]

    The word 'salad' is often preceded by the principal ingredient (e.g. 'potato salad', 'fruit salad') or a named type of salad (e.g. 'Waldorf salad'). When used alone, 'salad' usually implies the principal ingredient is lettuce or other greens.

    Hyponyms

    [edit]

    Derived terms

    [edit]
    [edit]

    Descendants

    [edit]
    • → Scottish Gaelic: sailead
    • → Welsh: salad

    Translations

    [edit]

    References

    [edit]
    1. ^ Grandgent, C[harles] H. (1899), “V. From Franklin to Lowell. A Century of New England Pronunciation”, in James Bright, editor, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America‎[1], volume 14, number 2, Baltimore: Modern Language Association of America, →DOI, →OCLC, page 238.
    2. ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (2 March 1942), “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

    References

    [edit]
    • Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎[3], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 173

    Indonesian

    [edit]
    Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia id

    Etymology

    [edit]
    PIE word
    *sḗh₂l

    Borrowed from English salad, from Middle English salade, from Old French salade, from Northern Italian salada, salata (compare insalata), from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from *salāre, from Latin saliō, from sal (“salt”). Doublet of selada and selat.

    Pronunciation

    [edit]

    Noun

    [edit]

    salad (plural salad-salad)

    1. (cooking) salad

    Alternative forms

    [edit]

    Hyponyms

    [edit]

    Further reading

    [edit]

    Spanish

    [edit]

    Verb

    [edit]

    salad

    1. second-person plural imperative of salar

    Volapük

    [edit]

    Noun

    [edit]

    salad (genitive salada, plural salads)

    1. lettuce, salad

    Declension

    [edit]
    Declension of salad
    Singular Plural
    Nominative salad salads
    Genitive salada saladas
    Dative salade salades
    Accusative saladi saladis
    Predicative1 saladu saladus
    Vocative o salad o salads
    1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

    Further reading

    [edit]
    • “salad”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)

    Welsh

    [edit]

    Etymology

    [edit]

    From English salad, from French salade.

    Pronunciation

    [edit]

    Noun

    [edit]

    salad m (not mutable, plural saladau)

    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=94519381"