Where does “salad” come from?
Salad comes from French salade, from Italian salada, derived from Latin salio and Latin celare, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ḱēl- and ḱel-.
salad (English): A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold...
Definitions
- A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold...
Ancestry of “salad”, step by step
salad traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle English salade
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | salade | salad; An ingredient in a salad |
| 2 | Old French | salade | — |
| 3 | Italian | salada | — |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | salata | salted |
| 5 | Latin | Salo | that flows near Bilbilis and then into the Iberus, now the Jalón |
| 6 | Latin | saliō | to leap, jump, bound |
| 7 | Latin | sāl | salt |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | sāls | salt |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | *sḗh₂l | salt |
via French salade
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | salade | salad; sallet |