different between soup vs sauce

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /su?p/
• (US) enPR: so?op, IPA^(key): /sup/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English soupe, sowpe, from Old French soupe, souppe, sope, from Late Latin suppa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Middle Dutch sope (“broth”)). Doublet of zuppa. See also sop and supper.

Noun

soup (countable and uncountable, plural soups)

1. Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture.

   Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup.

   • c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11:

     Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]

   1. (countable) A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
   2. (uncountable) The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.
2. (figuratively) Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
   1. (slang) Thick fog or cloud (also pea soup).
   2. (US, slang) Nitroglycerine or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking.
   3. (cant) Dope (illicit drug, used for making horses run faster or to change their personality).
   4. (photography) Processing chemicals into which film is dipped, such as developer.
   5. (biology) Liquid or gelatinous substrate, especially the mixture of organic compounds that is believe to have played a role in the origin of life on Earth.

      primordial soup

   6. (Britain, informal, often with "the") An unfortunate situation; trouble, problems (a fix, a mess); chaos.
   7. (surfing) The foamy portion of a wave.

Derived terms

Hyponyms

Related terms

• supper

See also

• porridge
• stew

Translations

Descendants

• Thai: ??? (súp)

Verb

soup (third-person singular simple present soups, present participle souping, simple past and past participle souped)

1. (uncommon) To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.
   • 1904 October, East is East and West is West, in The Vassar Miscellany, volume 34, number 1, page 236:

     "I was so mad, I let him wait half an hour to-night before I souped him."

   • 2011, Diza Sauers, Historama, page 152:

     She cooked huge stock pots and souped her dogs once a day.
2. (photography) To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.
   • 1970 December, in The Rotarian, volume 117, number 6, page 31:

     That girl Vivienne, by the way, once worked as a secretary in the workshop of The Rotarian, began "souping" her own snapshots at home, went from there to top rank as a New York color photographer specializing in small children […]

   • 1991, Ruth Jean Dale, Society Page:

     "Then perhaps it won't surprise you to learn Annie's taking over the Sunday social column," Roz said. "You photo-guys'll be souping her film."

   • 1998, Edward Gorman, Cold Blue Midnight:

     And her camera position had been completely out of his sight. Satisfied that she'd gotten everything she'd needed - much more, in fact - she went back inside and got to work. Jill had souped her first photographs while she'd been on […]

Etymology 2

From Middle English soupen, from Old English s?pan (“to sup, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *s?pan?. More at sup.

Verb

soup (third-person singular simple present soups, present participle souping, simple past and past participle souped)

1. Alternative form of sup

Etymology 3

From Middle English soupe, from Old English s?pe (“sup; draught”).

Noun

soup (plural soups)

1. Alternative form of sup

Etymology 4

From Middle English swopen, from Old English sw?pan (“to sweep”), from Proto-Germanic *swaipan? (“to sweep”). More at sweep.

Alternative forms

• soop

Verb

soup (third-person singular simple present soups, present participle souping, simple past and past participle souped)

1. (obsolete) To breathe out; to draw out.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Camden to this entry?)

2. (obsolete) To sweep.

Anagrams

• POUs, PUOs, Pous, opus, pous, puso

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Forby to this entry?)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)

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