sauce

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
2. (Australia, India, New-Zealand, UK, countable, uncountable) Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in
3. (countable, dated, slang, uncountable) Alcohol, booze.
4. (countable, slang, uncountable) Vitality; capability or talent.
5. (countable, uncountable) Anabolic steroids.
6. (countable, uncountable) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
7. (countable, dated, uncountable) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
8. (US, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable) Vegetables.
9. (UK, US, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.

Verb

1. To add sauce to; to season.
2. To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.
3. To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
4. (colloquial) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
5. (slang) To send or hand over.

Concepts

sauce

cuire

🧑‍🍳

soupe

🍲

bouillon

toupet

palmier à huile

jus de viande

amaranthe

skordaliá

condiment

culot

impertinence

source

tranche

Synonymes

gravy

broth

condiment

soup

🍲

dressing

seasoning

cook

🧑‍🍳

relish

soy sauce

stock

oil palm

meat sauce

sesame sauce

fish sauce

insolence

topping

peanut sauce

okra sauce

spice

season

paste

pertness

precocity

salsa

sap

sauciness

section

tartar

thick soup

Worcestershire

flavoing

ganishing

narsharab

amaranth

skordalia

appetizer

audacity

boldness

catsup

cheek

chutney

curry

🍛

dip

effrontery

etc.

flavor

flavoring

fluid

forwardness

garlic

🧄

Traductions

salsa

salsa

Soße

saus

Sauce

molho

σάλτσα

salsa

sop

sos

guazzetto

🍲

jus

αυθαδιάζω

αυθάδεια

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/sɔːs/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: sauce

In summary

PIE word
*séh₂ls
From Middle English sauce, from Old French sause, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), past participle of saliō (“I salt”), from sal. Doublet of salsa.
For the meaning development compare Ancient Greek ἥδυσμα (hḗdusma) ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (whence also English sweet).