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单词 sale
释义

sale

See also: Sale, salé, Salé, sàle, sāle, säle, Säle, såle, șale, ṣale, śale, and šále

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /seɪl/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪl
  • Homophone: sail

Etymology 1

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).

Noun

sale (countable and uncountable, plural sales)

  1. An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.
    He celebrated after the sale of company.
  2. (Short for discount sale) The sale of goods at reduced prices.
    They are having a clearance sale: 50% off.
  3. The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.
Troponyms
  • (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 terms
  • for sale
  • on sale
  • salesman
  • sales pitch
  • white sale
Translations
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See also
  • purchase

Etymology 2

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.

Noun

sale (plural sales)

  1. (obsolete) A hall.

Anagrams

  • ASLE, Ales, ELAS, Elsa, LAEs, LEAs, SEAL, Seal, Sela, aels, ales, lase, leas, seal, sela

Afrikaans

Noun

sale

  1. plural of saal (hall)

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin salem, accusative of sāl.

Noun

sale ?

  1. salt

References

  • sale” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sal/
  • (file)
  • Homophone: salle

Etymology 1

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.

Adjective

sale (plural sales)

  1. dirty
    Synonyms: crasseux, malpropre
    Hyponyms: dégoûtant, répugnant, sali, sordide, souillé, terni
    Antonyms: net, propre
  2. 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.
  3. vile, despicable
    Un sale typeA vile man.
    Synonyms: méprisable, vil
    Hyponyms: dégoûtant, répugnant, sordide
Derived terms
  • argent sale
  • être dans de sales draps
  • guerre sale
  • insalissable
  • laver son linge sale en public
  • sale comme un peigne
  • salement
  • saleté
  • saligaud
  • salir
  • salissant
  • salisson
  • salissure
  • salopard
  • salope
  • saloper
  • saloperie
  • salopiaud
See also
  • ordurier

Etymology 2

From saler.

Verb

sale

  1. inflection of saler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • 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.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsa.le/
  • Rhymes: -ale
  • Hyphenation: sà‧le

Etymology 1

From Latin salem.

Noun

sale m (plural sali)

  1. salt, sal
Derived terms
  • dissalare
  • insalare
  • salare
  • salgemma
  • saliera
  • salifero
  • salificare
  • salume
  • spargisale
  • insalata
  • salamoia
  • salatino
  • salato
  • salatura
  • sale fino
  • sale grosso
  • salina
  • salinità
  • salino
  • salmarino / sale marino
  • salmastro
  • salnitro
  • salsedine
  • salsiccia

Further reading

  • sale in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

sale f pl

  1. plural of sala

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

sale

  1. third-person singular present indicative of salire

Anagrams

  • Ales, Elsa, elsa, lesa

Latin

Noun

sale

  1. ablative singular of sāl

References

  • 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
  • sale”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Norman

Etymology

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).

Adjective

sale m or f

  1. (Jersey, Guernsey) dirty

Derived terms

  • sale maladie (venereal disease)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • sadle

Etymology

From Old Norse sǫðla, from Proto-Germanic *sadulōną.

Verb

sale (present tense saler, past tense salte or salet, past participle salt or salet, present participle salende, imperative sal)

  1. (transitive) to saddle

References

  • “sale” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • Asle, ales, Elsa, esla, lase, leas, -elsa, sela, slae

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • sala (a infinitive)

Etymology

From Old Norse sǫðla, from Proto-Germanic *sadulōną.

Verb

sale (present tense salar, past tense sala, past participle sala, passive infinitive salast, present participle salande, imperative sale/sal)

  1. (transitive) to saddle

References

  • “sale” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • Asle, elas, Elsa, lase, lesa

Old French

Etymology

From Frankish *sali (dwelling, house, entrance hall).

Noun

sale f (oblique plural sales, nominative singular sale, nominative plural sales)

  1. 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

Descendants

  • French : salle
  • Norman: salle

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsa.le]

Pronoun

sale

  1. feminine/neuter plural of său

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sale (Cyrillic spelling сале)

  1. inflection of sala:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Spanish

Etymology

From salir. For the interjection, sale is part of a former rhyming phrase, sale y vale; see valer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsale/ [ˈsa.le]
  • Rhymes: -ale
  • Syllabification: sa‧le

Interjection

sale

  1. (Mexico) ok
    Synonyms: (Argentina) dale, vale

Derived terms

  • sale y vale

Verb

sale

  1. inflection of salar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
  2. third-person singular present indicative of salir

Venetian

Alternative forms

  • sal

Etymology

From Latin sal, salem.

Noun

sale f

  1. salt (sodium chloride, non-chemical usage)

sale m (plural sali)

  1. (chemistry) salt

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Middle Low German sä̂lich, older form of sêlich, from Old Saxon sālig, from Proto-West Germanic *sālīg.

Adjective

sale

  1. (Christianity) Blessed, saved.
    he han skull få vaḷsale[so] that he would be saved
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