Where does “béchamel sauce” come from?
béchamel sauce (English) comes from French sauce béchamel, from French sauce, from Old French sause, from Vulgar Latin salsa, from Latin salsus, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l.
béchamel sauce (English): A simple white sauce made from a roux of butter...
Definitions
- A simple white sauce made from a roux of butter...
Ancestry of “béchamel sauce”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | sauce béchamel | béchamel sauce, a white-colored sauce |
| 2 | French | sauce | sauce |
| 3 | Old French | sause | — |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | salsa | nominative feminine singular of salsus;... |
| 5 | Latin | salsus | salty, briny; salted; witty |
| 6 | Latin | sāl | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | sāls | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | *sḗh₂l | — |