salle

See also: sallé and šalle

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.

Synonyms

• salle d'armes

Anagrams

• El Sal., Sella

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French salle, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French sale (“a large room, large reception hall”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *sal (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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/

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Noun

salle f (plural salles)

1. hall
2. room (in a house)

See also

• chambre f
• pièce f

Further reading

• “salle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• allés

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Middle French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French sale (“a large room, large reception hall”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *sal (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”).

Noun

salle f (plural salles)

1. room

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Norman

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French sale (“a large room, large reception hall”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *sal (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”).

Noun

salle f (plural salles)

1. (Jersey) living room

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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.