sale
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
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 *selh₁- (“to grab”).
Noun[edit]
sale (countable and uncountable, plural sales)
- An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.
- He celebrated after the sale of company.
- (Short for discount sale) The sale of goods at reduced prices.
- They are having a clearance sale: 50% off.
- The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.
Troponyms[edit]
- (selling of goods at reduced prices): cut-rate sale, sales event
- (act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder): auction, public sale
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Translations[edit]
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English sale, sal, from Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *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.
Noun[edit]
sale (plural sales)
Anagrams[edit]
Afrikaans[edit]
Noun[edit]
sale
Corsican[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin salem, accusative of sāl.
Noun[edit]
sale ?
References[edit]
- “sale” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
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.
Adjective[edit]
sale (plural sales)
- dirty
- bad, unpleasant
- Le prof est capable de me fiche une sale note rien que parce qu'il m'a aperçue en ville le mercredi.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- vile, despicable
- Un sale type ― A vile man.
- Synonyms: méprisable, vil
- Hyponyms: dégoûtant, répugnant, sordide
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Etymology 2[edit]
From saler.
Verb[edit]
sale
- inflection of saler:
Further reading[edit]
- “sale” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “sale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Latin salem, accusative of sāl.
Noun[edit]
sale m (plural sali)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- sale in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun[edit]
sale f pl
Etymology 3[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
sale
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Noun[edit]
sale
References[edit]
- “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[1]
- “sale”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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”).
Adjective[edit]
sale m or f
Derived terms[edit]
- sale maladie (“venereal disease”)
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse sǫðla, from Proto-Germanic *sadulōną.
Verb[edit]
sale (present tense saler, past tense salte or salet, past participle salt or salet, present participle salende, imperative sal)
- (transitive) to saddle
References[edit]
- “sale” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Anagrams[edit]
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- sala (a infinitive)
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse sǫðla, from Proto-Germanic *sadulōną.
Verb[edit]
sale (present tense salar, past tense sala, past participle sala, passive infinitive salast, present participle salande, imperative sale/sal)
- (transitive) to saddle
References[edit]
- “sale” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams[edit]
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Frankish *sali (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”)
Noun[edit]
sale f (oblique plural sales, nominative singular sale, nominative plural sales)
- 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
- […] que la soe amie
- circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
Descendants[edit]
Romanian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
sale
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From salir. For the interjection, sale is part of a former rhyming phrase, sale y vale; see valer.
Pronunciation[edit]
Interjection[edit]
sale
Derived terms[edit]
Verb[edit]
sale
- inflection of salar:
- third-person singular present indicative of salir
Venetian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin sal, salem.
Noun[edit]
sale f
- salt (sodium chloride, non-chemical usage)
sale m (plural sali)
Westrobothnian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Low German sä̂lich, older form of sêlich, from Old Saxon sālig, from Proto-West Germanic *sālīg.
Adjective[edit]
sale
- (Christianity) Blessed, saved.
- he han skull få vaḷ sale ― [so] that he would be saved
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