different between sauce vs primavera

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

English

Etymology

From Italian primavera (“spring”).

Adjective

primavera (not comparable)

1. Describing a light vegetable sauce, especially one served with pasta.

Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pr?mav?ra, from Latin pr?mus (“first”) + v?r (“spring”).

Noun

primavera f (plural primaveres)

1. spring (season)

See also

Catalan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pr?mav?ra, from Latin pr?mus (“first”) + v?r (“spring”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /p?i.m??ve.??/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /p?i.m??be.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /p?i.ma?ve.?a/

Noun

primavera f (plural primaveres)

1. spring (season)
2. primrose

   Synonym: prímula

See also

Galician

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pr?mav?ra, from Latin pr?mus (“first”) + v?r (“spring”).

Noun

primavera f (plural primaveras)

1. spring (season)

See also

Interlingua

Noun

primavera (plural primaveras)

1. spring (season)

See also

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pr?mav?ra, from Latin pr?mus (“first”) + v?r (“spring”). Compare Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Sicilian primavera, Romanian prim?var?, Old French primevoire, Occitan primver, Friulian primevere, Romansch primavaira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pri.ma?v?.ra/
• Hyphenation: pri?ma?vè?ra

Noun

primavera f (plural primavere)

1. spring (season)
2. (in the plural, familiar) years, winters

   Synonyms: anno, anni

3. primrose

   Synonym: primula

Derived terms

• primaverile

See also

• vernale

Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pr?mav?ra, from Latin pr?mus (“first”) + v?r (“spring”). Compare Italian, Spanish primavera, Romanian prim?var?.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /p?i.m?.?v?.??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /p?i.ma.?v?.??/, [p???.m?.?v?.??]

Noun

primavera f (plural primaveras)

1. spring, the season

Related terms

• primaveral
• primaveril

See also

• vernal
• vernante

Sicilian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pr?mav?ra, from Latin pr?mus (“first”) + Latin v?r (“spring”). Compare Italian primavera, Portuguese primavera, Spanish primavera, Romanian prim?var?.

Noun

primavera f

1. spring

See also

Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pr?mav?ra, from Latin pr?mus (“first”) + v?r (“spring”). Compare Italian primavera and Romanian prim?var?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?ima?be?a/, [p?i.ma???e.?a]

Noun

primavera f (plural primaveras)

1. spring (season)
2. year of age

   Synonyms: año, taco

Noun

primavera m or f (plural primaveras)

1. simple soul; simple creature; simple sod

Derived terms

Related terms

• primaveral
• verano

See also

• vernal

Further reading

• “primavera” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.