Masculine

salon

Meaning

  1. (masculine) living room
  2. (masculine) salon
  3. (masculine) show (exhibition of items), exhibition (large-scale public showing of objects or products)

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sa.lɔ̃/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Middle French, from Italian salone (“large hall”), augmented form of sala (“hall”), from Lombardic sala (“room, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”). Cognate with Old High German sal (“room, house, entrance hall”), Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), Old Church Slavonic село (selo, “courtyard, village”), Lithuanian sala (“island”).

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