different between sauces vs fauces

English

Noun

sauces

1. plural of sauce

Verb

sauces

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sauce

Anagrams

• causes

French

Noun

sauces f

1. plural of sauce

Anagrams

• causes, causés

Middle English

Noun

sauces

1. plural of sauce

Spanish

Noun

sauces m pl

1. plural of sauce

English

Etymology

From Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??si?z/

Noun

fauces pl (plural only)

1. (anatomy) The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue.
2. (botany) The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc.
3. (zoology) That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture.

Translations

References

• Hurme, Pesonen, Syväoja, "Englanti-Suomi suursanakirja", ?ISBN, 4th ed., 1993, page 426
• "Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language", new rev. ed., 1994, ?ISBN, page 702. Based on "The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, the Unabridged Edition", 2nd ed., 1993

Latin

Etymology

Plural of faux, of unknown etymology.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fau?.ke?s/, [?fäu?ke?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fau?.t??es/, [?f??u?t???s]

Noun

fauc?s f pl (genitive faucium); third declension

1. throat, pharynx, gullet
2. a narrow entrance, entry passage
3. defile, gorge

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem), plural only.

The word is often plural, although a single instance of the nominative singular form faux is known.

Descendants

• English: fauces
• Galician: fauces
• Italian: fauci
• Portuguese: fauce, foz
• Spanish: fauces, hocino

References

• fauces in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fauces in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fauces in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fauces in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• fauces in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fauces in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Spanish

Noun

fauces

1. plural of fauce