different between farse vs sarse

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??(?)s/
• Homophone: farce

Noun

farse (plural farses)

1. A vernacular paraphrase inserted into Latin liturgy.

Verb

farse (third-person singular simple present farses, present participle farsing, simple past and past participle farsed)

1. (transitive) To insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy).
   • 2010, Frank C. Senn, The People's Work: A Social History of the Liturgy (page 138)

     There is also evidence of glossing (or farsing) the texts of the Epistles read in the masses of the Christmas Octave.

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• Afers, Fears, Feras, Frase, SAfrE, fares, fears, reafs, safer

Italian

Noun

farse f

1. plural of farsa

Anagrams

• frase
• fresa
• sfare
• sfera

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin farsa, from farcire, via French farce

Noun

farse m (definite singular farsen, indefinite plural farser, definite plural farsene)

1. a farce (comedy)
2. mince (minced meat) (UK)

References

• “farse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin farsa, from farcire, via French farce

Noun

farse m (definite singular farsen, indefinite plural farsar, definite plural farsane)

1. a farce (comedy)
2. mince (minced meat) (UK)

References

• “farse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology 1

Noun

sarse (plural sarses)

1. Alternative form of searce

Verb

sarse (third-person singular simple present sarses, present participle sarsing, simple past and past participle sarsed)

1. Alternative form of searce

Etymology 2

Noun

sarse (countable and uncountable, plural sarses)

1. Pronunciation spelling of sauce.

Verb

sarse (third-person singular simple present sarses, present participle sarsing, simple past and past participle sarsed)

1. Pronunciation spelling of sauce.

Anagrams

• SASER, Sears, arses, rases, rasse, sears

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sarce, sarss, saarce, scarce, sars, sarche

Etymology

From Old French saas (with addition of an intrusive -r-), from Late Latin *saet?ceus (pannus) (“(cloth) made of bristles”), from Latin saeta (“bristle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sars/, /sa?rs/

Noun

sarse

1. sieve, searce

Derived terms

• sarsen

Descendants

• English: searce, sarse
• Scots: search

References

• “s?rce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.