salad

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A dish of raw or cold vegetables, often served with a dressing.

   I made a fresh salad with tomatoes and lettuce.

PIE word *sḗh₂l 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.

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