salle

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See also: sallé and šalle

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French salle. Doublet of sala and sale.

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Noun

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salle (plural salles)

  1. A fencing school.
    • 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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Estonian

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Noun

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salle

  1. partitive plural of sall

French

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Etymology

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Inherited 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). More at salon.

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salle f (plural salles)

  1. hall
  2. room (in a house)
  3. front of house (public area of a restaurant, theatre, etc.)
    Coordinate term: arrière-salle
    en salle(please add an English translation of this usage example)
  4. sports hall
  5. (informal) gym
    aller à la salleto go to the gym

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Descendants

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  • Haitian Creole: sal, lasal
  • Italian: sala
  • Vietnamese: xan

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Middle French

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Etymology

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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

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salle f (plural salles)

  1. room

Norman

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Etymology

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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).

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salle f (plural salles)

  1. (Jersey) living room

Pali

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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salle

  1. inflection of salla (dart; porcupine):
    1. locative singular
    2. accusative plural

Spanish

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Verb

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salle

  1. inflection of sallar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative