different between insolence vs sauce

English

Etymology

From Middle French insolence, from Latin ?nsolentia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ns?l?ns/

Noun

insolence (countable and uncountable, plural insolences)

1. Arrogant conduct; insulting, bold behaviour or attitude.
   • c. 1908–52, W.D. Ross, transl., The Works of Aristotle, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Rhetoric, II.1389b11, by Aristotle, ?OCLC, page 636:

     They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume III, Chapter 14:

     all the insolence of imaginary superiority

2. Insolent conduct or treatment; insult.
3. (obsolete) The quality of being unusual or novel.
   • 1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe:

     Her great excellence / Lifts me above the measure of my might / That being fild with furious insolence / I feele my selfe like one yrapt in spright.

Derived terms

• insolency

Translations

Verb

insolence (third-person singular simple present insolences, present participle insolencing, simple past and past participle insolenced)

1. (obsolete) To insult.

Anagrams

• incensole, selenonic

French

Etymology

From Latin ?nsolentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.s?.l??s/

Noun

insolence f (plural insolences)

1. insolence

Related terms

• insolent

Further reading

• “insolence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• sawce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sauce, from Old French sauce, sause, sausse, salse, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), past participle of sali? (“I salt”), from sal. Doublet of salsa.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s?s/, /s?s/
• Rhymes: -??s, -??s (depending on dialect)
• Homophone: source (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Noun

sauce (countable and uncountable, plural sauces)

1. A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.

   apple sauce; mint sauce

2. (Britain, Australia, India) Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:

   [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce

3. (slang, usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.

   Maybe you should lay off the sauce.

4. (bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.
5. (art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
6. (Internet slang) Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.
7. (dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
8. (US, obsolete slang, 1800s) Vegetables.
9. (obsolete, Britain, US, dialect) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
   • 1705, Robert Beverley, The History of Virginia

     Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers […] they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt.

   • 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, Ch. VIII:

     The first night of our expedition, we boiled our meat; and I asked the landlady for a little sauce, she told me to go to the garden and take as much cabbage as I pleased, and that, boiled with the meat, was all we could eat.

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Synonyms

• sowl

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

sauce (third-person singular simple present sauces, present participle saucing, simple past and past participle sauced)

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.

   • Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.

4. (colloquial) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.

Derived terms

• sauce up

Translations

See also

Category:en:Sauces

References

Anagrams

• 'cause, cause

French

Etymology

From Old French sauce, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, nominal use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), perfect participle of sali? (“I salt”), from s?l.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sos/

Noun

sauce f (plural sauces)

1. sauce

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

• “sauce” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cause, causé, sceau

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French sauce, from Vulgar Latin *salsa.

Alternative forms

• sause, sawce, sawse, salse, saus, saws

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sau?s(?)/

Noun

sauce (plural sauces)

1. A sauce or gravy; a liquid condiment.
2. A solution or broth used for pickling or preserving.
3. A liquid medicine; sauce as a pharmaceutical.

Related terms

• saucen
• saucer
• saucerie
• sausfleme
• vert sauce

Descendants

• English: sauce
• Scots: sauce

References

• “sauce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-08.

Etymology 2

Verb

sauce

1. Alternative form of saucen

Old French

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), from sali?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sau?t?s?/

Noun

sauce f (oblique plural sauces, nominative singular sauce, nominative plural sauces)

1. sauce (condiment)

Descendants

• English: sauce
• French: sauce

Etymology 2

From Latin salix, salicem.

Noun

sauce m (oblique plural sauces, nominative singular sauces, nominative plural sauce)

1. willow (tree)

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish salze, from Latin salix (“willow”) (compare Catalan salze, Italian salice, Romanian salcie), from Proto-Indo-European *sl?H-ik- (“willow”). Doublet of sarga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?sau?e/, [?sau?.?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?sause/, [?sau?.se]

Noun

sauce m (plural sauces)

1. willow

   Synonym: salce

Usage notes

• Sauce is a false friend, and does not mean the same as the English word sauce. The Spanish word for sauce is salsa.

Derived terms

• sauzal m
• Saucedo
• sauce llorón

Related terms

• salicílico

Anagrams

• cause, causé, sueca