sauce

English

Etymology

From Old French sauce, from Vulgar Latin salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), past participle of saliō (“I salt”), from sal.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: [sɔs], [sɑs]

• Audio (US)

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• (RP) IPA: [sɔːs]
• Rhymes: -ɔːs, -ɑːs (depending on dialect)
• Homophone: source (in some non-rhotic accents)

Noun

sauce (countable and uncountable; plural sauces)

1. A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food
2. cheek, impertinence
3. (usually "the") booze, alcohol

   You've been a bit easy the past couple weeks... Maybe you should lay off the sauce.

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XVII:

     [...] she was thinking of her first husband, who was a heel to end all heels and a constant pain in the neck to her till one night he most fortunately walked into the River Thames while under the influence of the sauce and didn't come up for days.

4. (bodybuilding) anabolic steroids
5. (US, slang, 1800s) Vegetables.
   • 1833, John Neal, The Down-Easters, Volume 1:

     I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse … .

   • 1882, George W. Peck, “Unscrewing the Top of a Fruit Jar”, in Peck's Sunshine^[1]:

     and all would be well only for a remark of a little boy who, when asked if he will have some more of the sauce, says he "don't want no strawberries pickled in kerosene."

6. (art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
7. (Internet slang) Source; a term said when requesting the source of an image.

Derived terms

Derived terms

apple sauce, applesauce, apple-sauce barbecue sauce béarnaise sauce béchamel sauce brown sauce fair suck of the sauce bottle fish sauce hoisin sauce hollandaise sauce hot sauce hunger is a good sauce

hunger is the best sauce laurier-sauce marchand de vin sauce Marie Rose sauce mint sauce mother sauce oyster sauce pasta sauce ranchero sauce saucepan saucepot

saucy soy sauce special sauce steak sauce sweet-and-sour sauce Tabasco sauce tartare sauce, tartar sauce tomato sauce what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander Worcester sauce Worcestershire sauce

Translations

liquid condiment

• Afrikaans: sous (af)
• Albanian: salcë (sq)
• Arabic: صَلْصَة (ar) (ṣálṣa) f, مَرَق (ar) (máraq) m, مَرَقة (ar) (máraqa) f
• Armenian: սոուս (hy) (sous)
• Basque: saltsa (eu)
• Belarusian: соус (be) (sóus) m, падліўка (be) (padlíŭka) f
• Bulgarian: coc (bg) (sos) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 醬 (cmn), 酱 (cmn) (jiàng) (savoury); 汁 (cmn) (zhī) (sweet); 醬汁 (cmn), 酱汁 (cmn) (jiàngzhī), 沙司 (cmn) (shāsī)

• Czech: omáčka (cs) f
• Danish: sovs (da)
• Dutch: saus (nl)
• Esperanto: saŭco (eo)
• Faroese: sós (fo) f
• Finnish: kastike (fi)
• French: sauce (fr) f
• Georgian: საწებელი (ka) (sac'ebeli)
• German: Soße (de) f, Sauce (de) f
• Greek: σάλτσα (el) (sáltsa) f
• Hebrew: רוטב (he) (rótev) m
• Hindi: चटनी (hi) (chaṭnī) f
• Hungarian: szósz (hu), mártás (hu)
• Icelandic: sósa (is) f
• Ido: sauco (io)
• Indonesian: saus (id)
• Ingrian: kassen
• Irish: anlann (ga) m
• Italian: salsa (it) f
• Japanese: ソース (ja) (sōsu)

• Khmer: ទឹកជ្រលក់ (km) (tɨk crɔlʊək)
• Korean: 소스 (ko) (soseu)
• Latin: sucus (la) m, embamma (la) f
• Latvian: mērce (lv)
• Lithuanian: padažas (lt)
• Lojban: sanso (jbo)
• Luxembourgish: Zooss (lb) f
• Macedonian: сос (mk) (sos) m, прелив (mk) (préliv) m (usually sweet)
• Malay: sos (ms)
• Norwegian: saus (no) m
• Old English: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: سس (fa) (sos)
• Polish: sos (pl) m
• Portuguese: molho (pt) m
• Romanian: sos (ro) n
• Russian: соус (ru) (sóus) m, подливка (ru) (podlívka) f
• Scottish Gaelic: sùgh (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: умак (sh) m, сос (sh) m

  Roman: umak (sh) m, sos (sh) m

• Slovene: omaka (sl) f
• Spanish: salsa (es) f
• Swedish: sås (sv)
• Thai: ซอส (th) (sôt), น้ำปลา (th) (náam bplaa)
• Turkish: salça (tr)
• Ukrainian: соус (uk) (sóus) m, підлива (uk) (pidlýva) f
• Vietnamese: xốt (vi) (sauce used for dressing a dish), nước chấm (vi) (thin dip), tương (vi) (thick tip)
• Volapük: sod (vo)
• Votic: kasõ
• Welsh: saws (cy) m

cheek

• Dutch: onbeleefde opmerkingen (nl)

• Hungarian: szemtelenség (hu)

booze

• Finnish: soppa (fi)

• Spanish: (Mexico) chupe (es) m

steroids

Verb

sauce (third-person singular simple present sauces, present participle saucing, simple past and past participle sauced)

1. to add sauce to something
2. to act in a cheeky manner

Translations

apply sauce

• Dutch: saus opdoen (nl)

give cheek

• Dutch: onbeleefd zijn (nl)

Postposition

sauce

1. (slang) An intensifying suffix.

Derived terms

Derived terms

awesome sauce, awesomesauce, awesome-sauce beatsauce boss sauce crazysauce dopesauce dumb sauce gay sauce

fail sauce lamesauce scary sauce sweet sauce weaksauce win sauce

See also

• bechamel
• catsup
• coulis
• gravy
• ketchup
• salsa
• soy

Anagrams

• cause, 'cause

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French

Etymology

From Old French sauce, from Vulgar Latin salsa, nominal use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), perfect participle of saliō (“I salt”), from sāl.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [sos]

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Noun

sauce f (plural sauces)

1. sauce

Anagrams

• cause, causé, sceau

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Old French

Etymology 1

Latin salsa, see above.

Noun

sauce f (oblique plural sauces, nominative singular sauce, nominative plural sauces)

1. sauce (condiment)

Descendants

• English: sauce
• French: sauce

Etymology 2

Latin salice, see Spanish below

Noun

sauce m (oblique plural sauces, nominative singular sauces, nominative plural sauce)

1. willow (tree)

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

From Old Spanish salze, from Latin salice (cf. Catalan salze, Italian salice, Romanian salcie), singular ablative of salix (“willow”).

Pronunciation

• (Castilian) IPA: /ˈsau.θe/
• (Others) IPA: /ˈsau.se/

Noun

sauce m (plural sauces)

1. willow

Usage notes

• Sauce is a false friend, and does not mean the same as the English word sauce. The Spanish word for sauce is salsa.

Synonyms

• salce

Derived terms

• sauzal m
• Saucedo

Related terms

• salicílico

Anagrams

• cause, causé