saláta
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saláta (lettuce) 
saláta (salad)
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian, from Latin sal (“salt”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
saláta (plural saláták)
- lettuce (an edible plant, Lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green and/or purple leaves)
- Synonym: kerti saláta
- lettuce (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable)
- salad (a food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise)
- (figuratively, colloquial) a tattered, well-thumbed, worn book (a book showing signs of frequent or heavy use, falling apart into individual pages)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | saláta | saláták |
| accusative | salátát | salátákat |
| dative | salátának | salátáknak |
| instrumental | salátával | salátákkal |
| causal-final | salátáért | salátákért |
| translative | salátává | salátákká |
| terminative | salátáig | salátákig |
| essive-formal | salátaként | salátákként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | salátában | salátákban |
| superessive | salátán | salátákon |
| adessive | salátánál | salátáknál |
| illative | salátába | salátákba |
| sublative | salátára | salátákra |
| allative | salátához | salátákhoz |
| elative | salátából | salátákból |
| delative | salátáról | salátákról |
| ablative | salátától | salátáktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
salátáé | salátáké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
salátáéi | salátákéi |
| Possessive forms of saláta | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | salátám | salátáim |
| 2nd person sing. | salátád | salátáid |
| 3rd person sing. | salátája | salátái |
| 1st person plural | salátánk | salátáink |
| 2nd person plural | salátátok | salátáitok |
| 3rd person plural | salátájuk | salátáik |
Derived terms
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Expressions
References
- ^ saláta in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
- saláta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN