Where does “sass” come from?
Sass comes from English sauce, Middle English sauce, Old French sauce, Latin salsus meaning salted, from Latin salio, Latin sal meaning salt, and Proto-Indo-European ser-.
sass (English): Backtalk, cheek, sarcasm; Vegetables used in...
Definitions
- Backtalk, cheek, sarcasm; Vegetables used in...
Ancestry of “sass”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | sauce | A liquid condiment or accompaniment to food;... |
| 2 | Middle English | sauce | A sauce or gravy; a liquid condiment; A solution... |
| 3 | Old French | sause | sauce (condiment) |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | salsa | nominative feminine singular of salsus;... |
| 5 | Latin | salsus | salty, briny; salted; witty |
| 6 | Latin | sāl | salt |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | sāls | salt |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | *sḗh₂l | salt |