sale

• (UK) IPA^(key): /seɪl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪl
• Homophone: sail

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”).

sale (countable and uncountable, plural sales)

1. An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.

   He celebrated after the sale of company.

2. (Short for discount sale) The sale of goods at reduced prices.

   They are having a clearance sale: 50% off.

3. The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.

• (selling of goods at reduced prices): cut-rate sale, sales event
• (act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder): auction, public sale

• purchase

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”). Doublet of sala and salle. Related also to salon, saloon.

sale (plural sales)

1. (obsolete) A hall.

• ASLE, Ales, ELAS, Elsa, LAEs, LEAs, SEAL, Seal, Sela, aels, ales, lase, leas, seal, sela

sale

1. plural of saal (hall)

From Latin salem, accusative of sāl.

sale ?

1. salt

• “sale” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

• IPA^(key): /sal/

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• Homophone: salle

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.

sale (plural sales)

1. dirty

   Synonyms: crasseux, malpropre

   Hyponyms: dégoûtant, répugnant, sali, sordide, souillé, terni

   Antonyms: net, propre

2. bad, unpleasant

   Le prof est capable de me fiche une sale note rien que parce qu'il m'a aperçue en ville le mercredi.

   The teacher can give me a bad grade just because he saw me in town on Wednesday.

3. vile, despicable

   Un sale type ― A vile man.

   Synonyms: méprisable, vil

   Hyponyms: dégoûtant, répugnant, sordide

From saler.

sale

1. inflection of saler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.le/
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: sà‧le

From Latin salem.

sale m (plural sali)

1. salt, sal

• sale in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sale f pl

1. plural of sala

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sale

1. third-person singular present indicative of salire

• Ales, Elsa, elsa, lesa

sale

1. ablative singular of sāl

• “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
• “sale”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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”).

sale m or f

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) dirty

• sale maladie (“venereal disease”)

• sadle

From Old Norse sǫðla, from Proto-Germanic *sadulōną.

sale (present tense saler, past tense salte or salet, past participle salt or salet, present participle salende, imperative sal)

1. (transitive) to saddle

• “sale” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• Asle, ales, Elsa, esla, lase, leas, -elsa, sela, slae

• sala (a infinitive)

From Old Norse sǫðla, from Proto-Germanic *sadulōną.

sale (present tense salar, past tense sala, past participle sala, passive infinitive salast, present participle salande, imperative sale/sal)

1. (transitive) to saddle

• “sale” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Asle, elas, Elsa, lase, lesa

From Frankish *sali (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”).

sale f (oblique plural sales, nominative singular sale, nominative plural sales)

1. 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

• French : salle
• Norman: salle

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.le/
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: sa‧le

sale

1. inflection of său:
   1. genitive/dative feminine singular
   2. feminine/neuter plural

sale (Cyrillic spelling сале)

1. inflection of sala:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

From salir. For the interjection, sale is part of a former rhyming phrase, sale y vale; see valer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsale/ [ˈsa.le]
• Rhymes: -ale
• Syllabification: sa‧le

sale

1. (Mexico) ok

   Synonyms: (Argentina) dale, vale

sale

1. inflection of salar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. third-person singular present indicative of salir

• sal

From Latin sal, salem.

sale f

1. salt (sodium chloride, non-chemical usage)

sale m (plural sali)

1. (chemistry) salt