salad

Meaning

Noun

• A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold ingredients, typically vegetables, usually served with a dressing such as vinegar or mayonnaise.
• A raw vegetable of the kind used in salads.

Origin

• From Middle English salade, from Old French salade, borrowed from Northern Italian salada, salata (compare insalata), from Vulgar Latin, from *salāre, from Latin saliō, from sal. Vegetables were seasoned with brine or salty oil-and-vinegar dressings during Roman times.