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 — salt.

béchamel sauce (English): A simple white sauce made from a roux of butter...

Definitions

  1. A simple white sauce made from a roux of butter...

Ancestry of “béchamel sauce”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsauce béchamelbéchamel sauce, a white-colored sauce
2Frenchsaucesauce
3Old Frenchsausesauce (condiment)
4Vulgar Latinsalsanominative feminine singular of salsus;...
5Latinsalsussalty, briny; salted; witty
6Latinsālsalt
7Proto-Italicsālssalt
8Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →