sauce
/sɔːs/ · noun
Meaning
- A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
- Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in
- Alcohol, booze.
- Vitality; capability or talent.
- Anabolic steroids.
- A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
- Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
- Vegetables.
- Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
- 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.
- To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
- To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
- To send or hand over.
- Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.
- Acronym of Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions.
Etymology / origin
PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English sauce, from Old French sause, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), past participle of saliō (“to salt”), from sal. Doublet of salsa. For the meaning development compare Ancient Greek ἥδυσμα (hḗdusma) ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (whence also English sweet).
- salsus(Latin)→
- *salsa(la-vul)→
- sause(Old French)→
- sauce(Middle English)→
- sauce (English)
- Relations: inh, der, der, der
Related words
Descendant words
- সস(Bengali) (bor)
- 沙司(Chinese) (bor)
- 番茄沙司(Chinese) (bor)
- saŭco(Esperanto) (bor)
- sauco(Ido) (bor)
- ソース(Japanese) (bor)
- 소스(Korean) (bor)
- Zooss(Luxembourgish) (cog)
- sós(Macanese) (bor)
- sosi(Samoan) (bor)
- sabhs(Scottish Gaelic) (bor)
- sosi(Swahili) (bor)
- ซอส(Thai) (bor)
- sos(Tok Pisin) (der)
- sốt(Vietnamese) (cal)
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