salad
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Alternative forms
- sallet [16th–19th c.]
Etymology
| PIE word |
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| *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.
Pronunciation
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 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.
- chicken salad
- We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.
- 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
- candle salad
- Caprese salad
- chef salad
- chicken salad
- Chilean salad
- Chinese chicken 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
- Pittsburgh salad
- poke salad
- potato salad
- rainbow salad
- rocket salad
- Russian salad
- Serbian 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
- angry fruit salad
- cabbage salad
- Cæsar salad
- chef's salad
- chicken salad air
- combination salad
- composed salad
- dinner salad
- fiesta salad
- gelatine salad
- gelatin salad
- green salad
- ham salad
- jello salad
- jewel salad
- macaroni salad
- mac salad
- malfouf salad
- Moscow salad
- perfection salad
- poké salad
- salad bar
- salad bowl
- salad burnet
- salad cream
- salad days
- salad dodger
- salad-dodger
- salad dressing
- salad fork
- salad greens
- salading
- saladless
- saladlike
- salad-oil
- salad oil
- salad onion
- salad plate
- salad shaker
- salad shooter
- salad spinner
- salad spoon
- salad tossing
- salady
- salad year
- salad years
- seafoam salad
- side salad
- sopska salad
- southwestern salad
- southwest salad
- Stolichny salad
- toss salad
- toss someone's salad
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
food
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References
- 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, , →ISBN, § 6, page 98.
- Grandgent, C. H. (1899) “From Franklin to Lowell”, in James W. Bright, editor, Proceedings of the Modern Language Association, volume 14, number 2, Modern Language Association of America, , page 238
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