salle

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See also: sallé and šalle

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French salle. Doublet of sala and sale.

Pronunciation

Noun

salle (plural salles)

  1. A fencing school.
    • 2001, Nick Evangelista, Anita Evangelista, The Woman Fencer:
      Your local fencing salle is a good place to relax and unwind and let the cares of the day take a backseat for a while. Meeting someone on the fencing strip, blade in hand, can become your only concern for two or three hours a couple of times a week.

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Estonian

Noun

salle

  1. partitive plural of sall

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French salle, from Old French sale (“a large room, large reception hall”), from Frankish *sal (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”). More at salon.

Cognates:

Cognate with Old High German sal (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”) (whence German Saal), Old Norse salr (“room, hall”) (whence Icelandic salur), Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”). Cognate with Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish sala.

Pronunciation

Noun

salle f (plural salles)

  1. hall
  2. room (in a house)
  3. front of house (public area of a restaurant, theatre, etc.)
    Coordinate term: arrière-salle
    en salle ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  4. sports hall
  5. (informal) gym
    aller à la salle ― to go to the gym

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Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: sal, lasal
  • → Italian: sala
  • → Vietnamese: xan

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French sale (“a large room, large reception hall”), from Frankish *sal (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”).

Noun

salle f (plural salles)

  1. room

Norman

Etymology

From Old French sale (“a large room, large reception hall”), from Frankish *sal (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”).

Noun

salle f (plural salles)

  1. (Jersey) living room

Pali

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Noun

salle

  1. inflection of salla (“dart; porcupine”):
    1. locative singular
    2. accusative plural

Spanish

Verb

salle

  1. inflection of sallar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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