sale

• (UK) IPA^(key): /seɪl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪl
• Homophone: sail

From Middle English sale, sal, from Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sol-, *sel- (“home, dwelling, village”). Cognate with West Frisian seal, Dutch zaal, German Saal, Swedish sal, Icelandic salur, Lithuanian sala (“village”). Related also to salon, saloon.

sale (plural sales)

1. (obsolete) A hall.

From Middle English sale, from Old English sala (“act of selling, sale”), from Old Norse sala (“sale”), from Proto-Germanic *salō (“delivery”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to grab”).

sale (plural sales)

1. An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.

   He celebrated after the sale of company.

2. The sale of goods at reduced prices.

   They are having a clearance sale: 50% off.

3. The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.

• (selling of goods at reduced prices): cut-rate sale, sales event
• (act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder): auction, public sale

• purchase

• ELAS, Elsa, LAEs, LEAs, SEAL, Seal, Sela, aels, ales, lase, leas, seal

sale

1. plural of saal (hall)

• IPA^(key): /sal/

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• Homophone: salle

From Middle French sale, from Old French sale (“dull, dirty”), from Frankish *salo (“dull, dirty grey”), from Proto-Germanic *salwaz (“dusky, dark, muddy”), from Proto-Indo-European *salw-, *sal- (“dirt, dirty”). Cognate with Old High German salo (“dull, dirty grey”), Old English salu (“dark, dusky”), Old Norse sǫlr (“yellowish”). More at sallow.

sale (plural sales)

1. dirty

• salopard
• salope

From saler

sale

1. first-person singular present indicative of saler
2. third-person singular present indicative of saler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of saler
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of saler
5. second-person singular imperative of saler

• “sale” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsale/, [ˈsaː.le]
• Hyphenation: sà‧le

From Latin sāl, salem (“salt”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

sale m (plural sali)

1. salt, sal

sale f pl

1. plural of sala

sale

1. third-person singular present indicative of salire

• elsa
• lesa

sale

1. ablative singular of sāl

• sale in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• sale in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• sale in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

From Old French sale (“dull, dirty”), from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *salwaz (“dusky, dark, muddy”), from Proto-Indo-European *salw-, *sal- (“dirt, dirty”).

sale m or f

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) dirty

• sale maladie (“venereal disease”)

sale

1. To saddle (attach a saddle to a horse)

sale f (oblique plural sales, nominative singular sale, nominative plural sales)

1. room (subsection of a building)
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     […] que la soe amie
     Est la plus bele de la sale[.]

     - […] The his wife

     Is the most beautiful in the room

• French : salle
• Norman: salle

From salir. For the interjection, sale is part of a former rhyming phrase, sale y vale; see valer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsale/

sale

1. (Mexico) ok

• dale (Argentina)
• vale

sale

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of salir.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of salir.

• sal

From Latin sal, salem.

sale f

1. salt (sodium chloride, non-chemical usage)

sale m (plural sali)

1. (chemistry) salt