Where does “sauce” come from?
Sauce comes from Middle English sauce, from Old French sauce, from Latin salsus meaning salted, derived from salio meaning to salt, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root ser- meaning to flow or run.
sauce (English): A liquid condiment or accompaniment to food;...
Definitions
- A liquid condiment or accompaniment to food;...
Ancestry of “sauce”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | sauce | A sauce or gravy; a liquid condiment; A solution... |
| 2 | Old French | sause | — |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | salsa | nominative feminine singular of salsus;... |
| 4 | Latin | salsus | salty, briny; salted; witty |
| 5 | Latin | sāl | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | sāls | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | *sḗh₂l | — |
Words derived from “sauce”