sauce
[ saws ]
/ sɔs /
noun
verb (used with object), sauced, sauc·ing.
Origin of sauce
1300–50; Middle English < Middle French < Late Latin
salsa, noun use of feminine of Latin
salsus salted, past participle of
sallere to salt, derivative of
sāl
salt1
OTHER WORDS FROM sauce
sauce·less, adjective o·ver·sauce, verb (used with object), o·ver·sauced, o·ver·sauc·ing.WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH sauce
sauce sourceWords nearby sauce
Example sentences from the Web for sauce
British Dictionary definitions for sauce
sauce
/ (sɔːs) /
noun
verb (tr)
Derived forms of sauce
sauceless, adjectiveWord Origin for sauce
C14: via Old French from Latin
salsus salted, from
salīre to sprinkle with salt, from
sal salt
Idioms and Phrases with sauce
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