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salad

/ˈsæl.əd/
/ˈsæl.ɪd/ Southern US
/ˈsaləɖ/ South Asia
/səˈlɑɖ/ South Asia
/səˈlɑd̪/ South Asia
/ˈsæl.ɪt/ obsolete

Rhymes with -æləd

Where it comes from

PIE word

*sḗh₂l

Etymology tree

Italian salatader.

Old French saladebor.

Middle English salade

English salad

From Middle English salade, from Old French salade, borrowed from Northern Italian salada, salata (compare insalata), from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from *salāre, from Latin saliō, from sal (“salt”). Vegetables were seasoned with brine or salty oil-and-vinegar dressings during Roman times.

noun salads · sallet

countable, uncountable A food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often involving two or more such ingredients mixed together, with larger items cut or torn into small pieces, and usually with a dressing or binding; usually served cold or at room temperature, as a dish or savoury sandwich filling. Lafeu. ’Twas a good lady, ’twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb. Clown. Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the salad, or rather, the herb of grace.
countable, uncountable One or more raw vegetables of the kind used in salads; typically greens (especially lettuce). sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment
countable, idiomatic, uncountable Any mixture of different things. word salad

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: coleslaw, greens, lettuce, endive, bowl, vegetable, burnet, plate, crap, wagon, salat, happy, prayer, liar, chance, racket

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noun food

Español	ensalada
한국어	샐러드 saelleodeu
日本語	サラダ sarada
中文	色拉 sèlā, 沙拉 shālā
हिन्दी	सलाद salād
Kiswahili	saladi
Português	salada
Français	salade
Deutsch	Salat
Italiano	insalata
Ελληνικά	σαλάτα saláta
Română	salată
Русский	сала́т salát
العربية	سَلَطَة salaṭa
עברית	סָלָט salát

noun vegetable

Русский	сала́т salát

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@misc{salad_2026,
  title = {salad},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/salad},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}