Where does “salade” come from?

salade (Middle French) comes from Old French salade, from Italian salada, from Vulgar Latin salata, from Latin Salo, from Latin saliō, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l — salt.

Ancestry of “salade”, step by step

salade traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French salade

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Old French	salade	—
2	Italian	salada	—
3	Vulgar Latin	salata	salted
4	Latin	Salo	that flows near Bilbilis and then into the Iberus, now the Jalón
5	Latin	saliō	to leap, jump, bound
6	Latin	sāl	salt
7	Proto-Italic	sāls	salt
8	Proto-Indo-European	*sḗh₂l	salt

via Spanish celada

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Spanish	celada	sallet, salade
2	Latin	caelata	nominative feminine singular of caelātus;...

via Italian salata

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Italian	salata	feminine singular of salato; salad, something...

Words derived from “salade”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →