Femminile

salle

(Inglese)

  1. (feminine) hall
  2. (feminine) room (in a house)
  3. (feminine) front of house (public area of a restaurant, theatre, etc.)
  4. (feminine) sports hall
  5. (feminine, informal) gym

Frequenza

A2
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/sal/
Etimologia (Inglese)

In summary

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. Cognates Cognate with Old High German sal (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”) (whence German Saal), Old Norse salr (“room, hall”) (whence Icelandic salur), Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”). Cognate with Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish sala.

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