sauce
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English sauce[1], from Old French sauce, sause, sausse, salse, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), past participle of saliō (“I salt”), from sal[2]. Doublet of salsa.
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /sɔːs/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /sɔs/, /sɑs/
Audio (GA): (file) Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːs, -ɑːs (depending on dialect)
- Homophone: source (in some non-rhotic accents)
Noun
sauce (countable and uncountable, plural sauces)
- A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
- 2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better[1], Plum, →ISBN, page 192:
- You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
- apple sauce; mint sauce
- (UK, Australia, India) Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:
- [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce
- (slang, usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- [...] 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.
- Maybe you should lay off the sauce.
- (bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.
- (art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
- (Internet slang) Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.
- (dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
- 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 39:
- ‘Well, you know what Matchett’s like! Just about bring herself to talk to me because I’m housemaid, but if the gardener’s boy so much as looks at ’er it’s sauce,’ said Sarah.
- (US, obsolete slang, 1800s) Vegetables.
- 1882, George W. Peck, “Unscrewing the Top of a Fruit Jar”, in Peck's Sunshine[2]:
- 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."
- (obsolete, UK, US, dialect) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
- (Can we date this quote by Beverly and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers […] they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt.
- 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, Ch. VIII:
- The first night of our expedition, we boiled our meat; and I asked the landlady for a little sauce, she told me to go to the garden and take as much cabbage as I pleased, and that, boiled with the meat, was all we could eat.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Forby to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
- (Can we date this quote by Beverly and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
Synonyms
Derived terms
- apple sauce, applesauce, apple-sauce
- barbecue sauce
- béarnaise sauce
- béchamel sauce
- Bordelaise 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, soya 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
- white sauce
- Worcester sauce
- Worcestershire sauce
Translations
|
|
|
Verb
Lua error in Module:en-headword at line 1142: Legacy parameter 1=STEM no longer supported, just use 'en-verb' without params
- To add sauce to; to season.
- To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.
- (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Earth, yield me roots; / Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate / With thy most operant poison!
- (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
- (Can we date this quote by Sir Philip Sidney and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.
- (Can we date this quote by Sir Philip Sidney and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (colloquial) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
- (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- I'll sauce her with bitter words.
- (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
Derived terms
Translations
|
|
See also
References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “sauce”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ http://thetastermagazine.com/tag/sauce/
Anagrams
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
Noun
sauce f (plural sauces)
Descendants
Further reading
- “sauce”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Middle English
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Soy_sauce_3.jpg/220px-Soy_sauce_3.jpg)
Etymology 1
From Old French sauce, from Vulgar Latin *salsa.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
sauce (plural sauces)
- A sauce or gravy; a liquid condiment.
- c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 353-354:
- Wo was his cook, but if his ſauce were / Poynaunt and ſhaꝛp, and redy al his geere.
- Woe to his cook, except if his sauce was / sour and sharp, and all his equipment was ready […]
- A solution or broth used for pickling or preserving.
- A liquid medicine; sauce as a pharmaceutical.
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “sauce (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-08.
Etymology 2
From Old French saussier.
Verb
sauce
- Alternative form of saucen
Old French
Etymology 1
From Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), from saliō.
Pronunciation
Noun
sauce oblique singular, f (oblique plural sauces, nominative singular sauce, nominative plural sauces)
- sauce (condiment)
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Latin salix, salicem.
Noun
sauce oblique singular, m (oblique plural sauces, nominative singular sauces, nominative plural sauce)
- willow (tree)
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish salze, from Latin salicem (compare Catalan salze, Italian salice, Romanian salcie), singular accusative of salix (“willow”), from Proto-Indo-European *saləḱ-, *salək- (“willow”).
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Castilian" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈsau.θe/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Others" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈsau.se/
Noun
sauce m (plural sauces)
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
Derived terms
Related terms
Anagrams
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English doublets
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɔːs
- Rhymes:English/ɑːs
- English terms with homophones
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- British English
- Australian English
- Indian English
- English slang
- en:Bodybuilding
- en:Art
- English internet slang
- English dated terms
- American English
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English dialectal terms
- Requests for date/Beverly
- Requests for quotations/Forby
- Requests for quotations/Bartlett
- Requests for date/Shakespeare
- Requests for date/Sir Philip Sidney
- English colloquialisms
- English 4chan slang
- en:Condiments
- en:Foods
- en:Sauces
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- Middle English terms borrowed from Old French
- Middle English terms derived from Old French
- Middle English terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Middle English terms with quotations
- Middle English verbs
- enm:Condiments
- enm:Pharmacology
- enm:Sauces
- Old French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Old French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Old French terms inherited from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French feminine nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- es:Trees