Feminine
salle
Sentences
L’hémicycle n’est pas une salle de conférences de presse .
The hemicycle is not a press conference room.
Meaning
- (feminine) hall
- (feminine) room (in a house)
- (feminine) front of house (public area of a restaurant, theatre, etc.)
- (feminine) sports hall
- (feminine, informal) gym
Concepts
casualty ward
hospital ward
sleeping room
ginmill
night-club
sleeping accommodation
boarding lounge
Synonyms
Ulm
saloon
service hospitalier
auditorie
foyer du public
Chambre à Coucher
slaapkamer
d'intérieur
Translations
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sal/
Etymology
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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