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salon.

living room

5 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/sa.lɔ̃/
  1. living room

    masculine
  2. salon

    masculine
  3. show (exhibition of items), exhibition (large-scale public showing of objects or products)

    masculine
Where this word comes from

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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