salad
English
A salad.
Alternative forms
- sallet [16th–19th c.]
Etymology
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
- enPR: săʹləd IPA(key): /ˈsæləd/
- (Appalachians, obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈsælɪt/[1]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æləd
Noun
salad (countable and uncountable, plural salads)
- A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [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.
- chicken salad
- We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.
- Especially, such a mixture whose principal base is greens, most especially lettuce.
- romaine salad
- kale salad
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- A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.
- sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment
- (idiomatic) Any varied blend or mixture.
Hyponyms
- Bulgarian salad
- Caesar salad
- chef salad
- chicken salad
- Chilean salad
- Cobb salad
- congealed salad
- corn salad
- dandelion salad
- egg salad
- field salad
- frog-eye salad
- fruit salad
- garden salad
- Glasgow salad
- gorilla salad
- Greek salad
- Israeli salad
- jello salad
- Jello salad
- jumping salad
- millionaire's salad
- mimosa salad
- Niçoise salad
- Olivier salad
- pasta salad
- poke salad
- potato salad
- rocket salad
- Russian salad
- seafood salad
- Serbian salad
- Serbo-Croatian salad
- seven-layer salad
- shopska salad
- Snickers salad
- taco salad
- tomato salad
- tossed salad
- tuna salad
- Waldorf salad
- Watergate salad
- wedge salad
- word salad
Derived terms
- chicken salad air
- salad bar
- salad bowl
- salad cream
- salad days
- salad dodger
- salad dressing
- salad fork
- salad greens
- salading
- saladless
- saladlike
- salad oil
- salad onion
- salad shooter
- salad spinner
- salady
- salad year
- salad years
- toss someone's salad
Related terms
- taramosalata
Descendants
- → Scottish Gaelic: sailead
- → Welsh: salad
Translations
food
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vegetable
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References
- Hall, Joseph Sargent (March 2, 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
- Aldas, Ladas, S.D. Ala., daals
Cebuano
Etymology
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
- Hyphenation: sa‧lad
Noun
salad
- salad
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French salade (“salad”).
Noun
salad
- salad
Spanish
Verb
salad
- second-person plural imperative of salar
Welsh
Etymology
From English salad, from French salade.
Noun
salad m (plural saladau, not mutable)
- salad
Derived terms
- salad ffrwythau (“fruit salad”)
Further reading
- 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