sauce

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See also: Sauce and -sauce

English

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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

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  • 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.
    • 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
  2. (UK, Australia, India) Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:
    [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce
  3. (slang, usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.
    Maybe you should lay off the sauce.
  4. (bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.
  5. (art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
  6. (Internet slang) Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.
  7. (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.
  8. (US, obsolete 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[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."
  9. (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.
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Verb

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  1. To add sauce to; to season.
  2. 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!
  3. 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.
  4. (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.

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See also

Category:en:Sauces

References

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “sauce”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ http://thetastermagazine.com/tag/sauce/

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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

Noun

sauce f (plural sauces)

  1. sauce

Descendants

  • Danish: sovs
  • Dutch: saus
  • German: Soße
  • Greek: σως (sos)
  • Hungarian: szósz
  • Interlingua: sauce
  • Malagasy: lasosy
  • Norwegian Bokmål: saus

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Middle English

FWOTD – 4 December 2019
sauce

Etymology 1

From Old French sauce, from Vulgar Latin *salsa.

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Noun

sauce (plural sauces)

  1. 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 […]
  2. A solution or broth used for pickling or preserving.
  3. A liquid medicine; sauce as a pharmaceutical.
Descendants
References

Etymology 2

From Old French saussier.

Verb

sauce

  1. 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)

  1. sauce (condiment)
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Latin salix, salicem.

Noun

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

  1. willow (tree)

Spanish

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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

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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.

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