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salad

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A salad.

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Etymology

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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.

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Noun

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salad (countable and uncountable, plural salads)

  2. 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
  3. A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.
    sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment
  4. (idiomatic) Any varied blend or mixture.
    • 2021 October 16, Gurvinder Singh, “Why Pakistan will fail”, in Guruwonder‎[2]:
      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'.

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → Scottish Gaelic: sailead
  • → Welsh: salad

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References

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  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.
  2. ^ Grandgent, C. H. (1899) “From Franklin to Lowell”, in James W. Bright, editor, Proceedings of the Modern Language Association‎[1], volume 14, number 2, Modern Language Association of America, →DOI, page 238

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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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”).

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  • Hyphenation: sa‧lad

Noun

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salad

  1. salad

Haitian Creole

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Etymology

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From French salade (“salad”).

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salad

  1. salad

Spanish

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Verb

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salad

  1. second-person plural imperative of salar

Welsh

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Etymology

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From English salad, from French salade.

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Noun

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salad m (plural saladau, not mutable)

  1. salad

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Further reading

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  • 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
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