salle

Borrowed from French salle. Doublet of sala and sale.

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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.

• salle d'armes

• El Sal., Sella

salle

1. partitive plural of sall

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.

• IPA^(key): /sal/

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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 salle ― to go to the gym

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

• chambre f
• pièce f
• salon m

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

• allés

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”).

salle f (plural salles)

1. room

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”).

salle f (plural salles)

1. (Jersey) living room

salle

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

salle

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