Sauce
/sɔːs/noun
A liquid or semiliquid condiment served with food.
Did you know?Salt, the root of 'sauce,' birthed 'salary' from Roman 'salarium,' the salted rations doled out as wages to legionaries.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*sal-
“salt”
c. 700 BCE
Lat
sal
“salt”
Classical Latin
Lat
salsa
“salted (food or sauce)”
Vulgar Latin
VL
*salsa
“seasoned with salt”
12th Century
OF
sauce
“dressing or relish”
14th Century
ME
sauce
“condiment”
Modern English
Eng
sauce
“flavored liquid for food”