salad – English noun declension

English noun forms of salad

Noun: salad
Singularsalad
Pluralsalads

Sample Sentences

  • Lafeu. ’Twas a good lady, ’twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb.
  • Clown. Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the salad, or rather, the herb of grace. [c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:]
  • At various times and in different areas salads, compounded of meats, spices, tubers have been treated as of aphrodisiac value. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 213:]
  • We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.
  • sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment
  • I prefer a bit of salad on my burger.
  • Buy a bag of salad at the supermarket.
  • word salad
  • Rebuffed by the Arabs and then the Iranians for trying to be part of them and their societies, Pakistan is just a hotchpotch salad of people supposedly bound together by the myth of Muslim 'Ummah'. [2021 October 16, Gurvinder Singh, “Why Pakistan will fail”, in Guruwonder:]

Etymology

1. PIE word
2. *sḗh₂l
3. 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. See: Middle English Nouns 'salade', Italian Nouns 'salada', Latin Nouns 'saliō'.

Verbs referencing "salad"

English Nouns taramosalata, Polish Nouns sałata.