salad

• sallet [16th–19th c.]

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.

• enPR: săʹləd IPA^(key): /ˈsæləd/

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• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /ˈsælɪd/
• (Appalachian, obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈsælɪt/[1]
• Rhymes: -æləd

salad (countable and uncountable, plural salads)

1. 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.

   1. Especially, such a mixture whose principal base is greens, most especially lettuce.

      romaine salad

      kale salad

2. A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.

   sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment

3. (idiomatic) Any varied blend or mixture.
   • 2021 October 16, Gurvinder Singh, “Why Pakistan will fail”, in Guruwonder‎:

     Rebuffed by the Arabs and then the Iranians for trying to be part of them and their societies, Pakistan is just a hotchpotch salad of people supposedly bound together by the myth of Muslim 'Ummah'.

• taramosalata

• → Scottish Gaelic: sailead
• → Welsh: salad

• Aldas, Ladas, S.D. Ala., daals

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”).

• Hyphenation: sa‧lad

salad

1. salad

From French salade (“salad”).

• IPA^(key): /salad/

salad

1. salad

salad

1. second-person plural imperative of salar

From English salad, from French salade.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈsalad/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈsa(ː)lad/

salad m (plural saladau, not mutable)

1. salad

• salad ffrwythau (“fruit salad”)

• 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