Where does “-sauce” come from?
-sauce (English) comes from English awesome sauce, from English sauce, from Middle English sauce, from Old French sause, from Vulgar Latin salsa, from Latin salsus, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls — salt.
-sauce (English): awesome + API → awesomesauce; weak + API →...
Definitions
- awesome + API → awesomesauce; weak + API →...
Ancestry of “-sauce”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | awesome sauce | Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic... |
| 2 | English | sauce | A liquid condiment or accompaniment to food;... |
| 3 | Middle English | sauce | A sauce or gravy; a liquid condiment; A solution... |
| 4 | Old French | sause | sauce (condiment) |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | salsa | nominative feminine singular of salsus;... |
| 6 | Latin | salsus | salty, briny; salted; witty |
| 7 | Latin | sāl | salt |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | sāls | salt |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | *sḗh₂l | salt |