lettuce

English

Romaine lettuce (Lactuca sativa var. longifolia)

Etymology

From Middle English letuse, of uncertain precise origin, probably from the plural form Old French laitues, derived from Latin lactūca (“lettuce”), from lac (“milk”), because of the milky fluid in its stalks. Replaced Old English lēahtric.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛtɪs/

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Noun

lettuce (countable and uncountable, plural lettuces)

1. An edible plant, Lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green and/or purple leaves.
2. (uncountable) The leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable; as a dish often mixed with other ingredients, dressing etc.

   I’ll have a ham sandwich with lettuce and tomato.

3. (uncountable, US, slang) United States paper currency; dollars.

   Twelve dollars an hour? That's a lot of lettuce!

4. A strong yellow-green colour, like that of lettuce (also called lettuce green).

   lettuce:  

Synonyms

• (US paper currency): cabbage, greenbacks, sleepwort

Derived terms

• Bibb lettuce
• Boston lettuce
• butterhead lettuce
• celtuce
• cos lettuce
• hare's lettuce
• lamb's lettuce
• lettuce leaf
• lettuceless
• lettucelike
• lettuce opium
• lettucey
• miner's lettuce
• nut lettuce
• Romaine lettuce
• sand lettuce
• sea lettuce
• slender sea lettuce
• water-lettuce

 

Translations

an edible plant, Lactuca

• Afrikaans: blaarslaai, kropslaai
• Albanian: marule (sq)
• Arabic: خَسّ (ar) m (ḵass)

  Egyptian Arabic: خس m pl (ḵaṣ), خساية f (ḵaṣaya)

  Moroccan Arabic: خس m (ḵuss), خس m (ḵass)

• Armenian: կաթնուկ (hy) (katʻnuk), հազար (hy) (hazar), սալաթ (hy) (salatʻ), մառոլ (hy) (maṙol)
• Asturian: llechuga f
• Azerbaijani: salat, kahı (az)
• Basque: uraza
• Belarusian: сала́т-лату́к m (salát-latúk), сала́т m (salát), лату́к m (latúk)
• Bengali: লেটুস (leṭus)
• Bole: letas
• Bulgarian: маруля (bg) f (marulja)
• Burmese: ဆလတ် (my) (hca.lat)
• Catalan: enciam (ca) m, lletuga (ca) f
• Central Sierra Miwok: palá·ṭikin·a-
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 生菜 (saang¹ coi³)

  Mandarin: 萵苣／莴苣 (zh) (wōjù), 莴苣 (zh) (wōjù)

• Coptic: ⲱⲃ (ōb)
• Czech: hlávkový salát m
• Danish: salat (da)
• Dutch: sla (nl), salade (nl), slaplant (nl) m
• Esperanto: laktuko
• Estonian: aedsalat
• Finnish: lehtisalaatti (fi)
• French: laitue (fr) f
• Friulian: latuie f
• Galician: leituga (gl) f
• Georgian: სალათა (salata)
• German: Gartensalat m (cultivated lettuce), Lattich m (wild lettuce), Salat (de) m (cultivated lettuce)
• Greek: μαρούλι (el) n (maroúli)

  Ancient: θρίδαξ f (thrídax)

• Hausa: latas (ha)
• Hawaiian: lekuke
• Hebrew: חַסָּה (he) f (khása)
• Hindi: लेटिष (leṭiṣ), सलाद पत्ता (salād pattā)
• Hungarian: saláta (hu), fejes saláta (hu)
• Icelandic: salat (is)
• Ido: latugo (io)
• Indonesian: selada (id)
• Irish: leitís f
• Italian: lattuga (it) f
• Japanese: レタス (ja) (retasu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kazakh: салат (kk) (salat)
• Korean: 상추 (ko) (sangchu), 부루 (ko) (buru) (Jeju)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کاھوو (kahû)

• Lao: ຜັກສະລັດ (phak sa lat)
• Latin: lactūca (la) f
• Latvian: salāti f pl
• Lithuanian: salota f
• Low German: Slaad m
• Macedonian: салата f (salata), марула f (marula)
• Malay: selada
• Maltese: ħassa f
• Maori: rētihi
• Nahuatl: quillechuca
• Navajo: chʼil łigaii
• Norman: laitue f
• Norwegian: bladsalat
• Occitan: laituga (oc) f, lachuga (oc) f
• Old English: leahtric
• Persian: کاهو (fa) (kâhu)
• Polish: sałata (pl) f
• Portuguese: alface (pt) f
• Quechua: piliyuyu
• Romanian: lăptucă (ro) f, salată (ro)
• Russian: сала́т-лату́к m (salát-latúk), сала́т (ru) m (salát), лату́к (ru) m (latúk)
• Sardinian: lattuca f, làtua f, làtia f, latuca f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: zelena salata f

• Sicilian: lattuca (scn) f
• Slovene: solata (sl) f
• Spanish: lechuga (es) f
• Swahili: saladi (sw)
• Swedish: sallat (sv) c
• Tagalog: letsugas
• Taos: lecùgo’óne
• Thai: ผักกาดหอม (pàk-gàat-hɔ̌ɔm), ผักสลัด (pàk-sà-làt)
• Tibetan: རྗེན་ཚལ (rjen tshal)
• Turkish: marul (tr)
• Ukrainian: сала́т m (salát), сала́т-лату́к m (salát-latúk)
• Uzbek: karam (uz), salat (uz)
• Venetian: salata (vec) f, sałata f
• Vietnamese: rau diếp (vi)
• Volapük: latüg
• Walloon: salåde (wa) f
• Welsh: letysen (cy), letys (cy) f pl
• Zhuang: byaekaengjgwx

the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish

• Arabic: خَسّ (ar) m (ḵass)

  Egyptian Arabic: خس m pl (xaṣ), خساية f (xaṣaya)

  Moroccan Arabic: خس m (ḵuss), خس m (ḵass)

• Burmese: ဆလတ်ရွက် (hca.latrwak)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 生菜 (saang¹ coi³)

  Mandarin: 生菜 (zh) (shēngcài)

• Czech: hlávkový salát m
• Dutch: slaatje (nl) n, salade (nl)
• Esperanto: laktuko
• Finnish: salaatinlehti, salaatti (fi)
• French: salade (fr) f
• Galician: leituga (gl) f
• German: Salat (de) m
• Greek: μαρούλι (el) n (maroúli)

  Ancient: θρῖδαξ f (thrîdax)

• Hebrew: חסה (he) f (hasa)
• Hungarian: saláta (hu)
• Ido: latugo (io)
• Japanese: レタス (ja) (retasu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lao: ຈອກ (chok)
• Latin: lactūca (la) f
• Lithuanian: salotos f pl
• Maltese: ħassa f
• Maori: rētihi
• Navajo: chʼil łigai
• Persian: کاهو (fa) (kāhu)
• Polish: sałata (pl) f
• Portuguese: alface (pt) f
• Romanian: salată (ro)
• Russian: сала́т (ru) m (salát)
• Serbo-Croatian: zelena salata f
• Slovene: solata (sl) f
• Spanish: lechuga (es) f
• Volapük: salad (vo)

US paper currency

• Dutch: flappen (nl)
• French: oseille (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: λεφτά (el) n pl (leftá), χρήματα (el) n pl (chrímata)
• Portuguese: verdinhas f pl

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} خَسّ (ar) (ḵass)
• German: ^{(please verify)} Salat (de) m, ^{(please verify)} Kopfsalat (de) m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} lattuga (it) f, ^{(please verify)} insalata (it) f
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 상치 (sangchi)
• Kurdish:
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} ħassa f
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 萵苣／莴苣 (wōjù)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} salata (sh) f
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} sallat (sv)
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} ผักกาด (th) (pàk gàat)

See also

• cabbage

Anagrams

• culette