salle

See also: sallé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French salle.

Noun

salle (plural salles)

  1. A hall or room used for fencing.
    • 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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French

Etymology

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). 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 sala, Portuguese sala and Spanish sala. More at salon.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sal/
  • (file)

Noun

salle f (plural salles)

  1. hall
  2. room (in a house)

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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

Spanish

Verb

salle

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of sallar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of sallar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of sallar.
  4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of sallar.
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