Where does “sauce béchamel” come from?
sauce béchamel (French) comes 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.
sauce béchamel (French): béchamel sauce, a white-colored sauce
Definitions
- béchamel sauce, a white-colored sauce
Ancestry of “sauce béchamel”, step by step
sauce béchamel traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French sauce
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | sauce | sauce |
| 2 | Old French | sause | sauce (condiment) |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | salsa | nominative feminine singular of salsus;... |
| 4 | Latin | salsus | salty, briny; salted; witty |
| 5 | Latin | sāl | salt |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | sāls | salt |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | *sḗh₂l | salt |
via French Béchamel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | Béchamel | béchamel sauce |