Definitions and meaning of sale
sale
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: sāl, IPA(key): /seːl/
- (pane–pain merger) IPA(key): /seɪl/, Rhymes: -eɪl
Etymology 1
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
sale (countable and uncountable, plural sales)
- An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.
- (Short for discount sale) The sale of goods at reduced prices.
- The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.
Troponyms
- (selling of goods at reduced prices): cut-rate sale, sales event
- (act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder): auction, public sale
Derived terms
Translations
See also
Etymology 2
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.
Noun
sale (plural sales)
- (obsolete) A hall.
Anagrams
- ASLE, Ales, ELAS, Elsa, LAEs, LEAs, SEAL, Seal, Sela, aels, ales, lase, leas, seal, sela
Afrikaans
Noun
sale
- plural of saal (hall)
Corsican
Etymology
From Latin salem, accusative of sāl.
Noun
sale ?
- salt
References
- “sale” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sal/
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- Homophone: salle
Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle French sale, from Old French sale (“dull, dirty”), from Frankish *salu (“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
sale (plural sales)
- dirty
- Synonyms: crasseux, malpropre
- Antonyms: net, propre
- Hyponyms: dégoûtant, répugnant, sali, sordide, souillé, terni
- bad, unpleasant
- vile, despicable
- Synonyms: méprisable, vil
- Hyponyms: dégoûtant, répugnant, sordide
- Un sale type ― A vile man.
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
Etymology 2
From saler.
Verb
sale
- inflection of saler:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsa.le/
- Rhymes: -ale
- Hyphenation: sà‧le
Etymology 1
From Latin salem.
Noun
sale m (plural sali)
- salt, sal
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- sale in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
sale f pl
- plural of sala
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
sale
- third-person singular present indicative of salire
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
sale
- ablative singular of sāl
References
- “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
Etymology
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
sale m or f
- (Jersey, Guernsey) dirty
Derived terms
- sale maladie (“venereal disease”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse sǫðla, from Proto-Germanic *sadulōną.
Verb
sale (present tense saler, past tense salte or salet, past participle salt or salet, present participle salende, imperative sal)
- (transitive) to saddle
References
- “sale” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Anagrams
- Asle, ales, Elsa, esla, lase, leas, -elsa, sela, slae
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse sǫðla, from Proto-Germanic *sadulōną.
Verb
sale (present tense salar, past tense sala, past participle sala, passive infinitive salast, present participle salande, imperative sale/sal)
- (transitive) to saddle
References
- “sale” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- Asle, elas, Elsa, lase, lesa
Old French
Etymology
From Frankish *sali (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”).
Noun
sale oblique singular, f (oblique plural sales, nominative singular sale, nominative plural sales)
- room (subsection of a building)
Descendants
- French : salle
- Norman: salle
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsa.le/
-
- Rhymes: -ale
- Hyphenation: sa‧le
Pronoun
sale
- inflection of său:
- genitive/dative feminine singular
- feminine/neuter plural
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
sale (Cyrillic spelling сале)
- inflection of sala:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsale/ [ˈsa.le]
- Rhymes: -ale
- Syllabification: sa‧le
Etymology 1
From salir. For the interjection, sale is part of a former rhyming phrase, sale y vale; see valer.
Interjection
sale
- (Mexico) ok
- Synonyms: (Argentina) dale, vale
Derived terms
Verb
sale
- third-person singular present indicative of salir
Etymology 2
Verb
sale
- inflection of salar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- sale | Diccionario de americanismos | ASALE
Venetan
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin sal, salem.
Noun
sale f
- salt (sodium chloride, non-chemical usage)
Noun
sale m (plural sali)
- (chemistry) salt
Source: wiktionary.org