Salad
nounA cold dish of raw or cooked vegetables, often mixed with other ingredients and a dressing.
How to spell salad
5 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce salad
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does salad mean?
- nounA cold dish of raw or cooked vegetables, often mixed with other ingredients and a dressing.
Salad in a sentence
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She tossed a green salad with olive oil and lemon.
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The cafe served a grilled chicken salad for lunch.
Where does salad come from?
Language of origin: French
The word salad arrived in English in the late 1300s from the Old French salade, which in turn came from the Provencal salada. That word grew out of the Vulgar Latin phrase herba salata, meaning literally 'salted herb' or 'salted greens', because the earliest such dishes were simply raw vegetables dressed with salt and oil. The heart of the word is the Latin sal, meaning 'salt', the same root that gives us 'sauce', 'salami', and even 'salary' (Roman soldiers were once associated with payments connected to salt). Knowing that sal lurks at the start helps explain the single l: the word is sal plus ad, not a doubled spelling. Over time the meaning broadened from salted greens to any cold dish of mixed raw or cooked ingredients.
How the word is built
- salad (from Latin sal: salt)
- -ade (noun suffix, via Romance)
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