Where does “sauté” come from?

sauté (English) comes from French sauté, from French sauter, from Latin saltāre.

sauté (English): To cook using a small amount of fat in an open...

Definitions

  1. To cook using a small amount of fat in an open...

Ancestry of “sauté”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsautépast participle of sauter
2Frenchsauterto jump, leap; to bang, hump, have sex with; to...
3Latinsaltāre—

Words derived from “sauté”

Every word from Latin saltāre →Every word from French sauter →Every word from French sauté →