saucer

English

Etymology

From Middle English saucer, from Old French saussier (and feminine saussiere; hence modern French saucier m, saucière f).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔː.sə/
• Rhymes: -ɔːsə(r)
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.səɹ/, /ˈsɒ.səɹ/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑ.səɹ/

Noun

saucer (plural saucers)

1. A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.
2. An object round and gently curved (shaped like a saucer).

   The saucer-shaped object could have been a UFO.

3. (obsolete) A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table.

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

4. A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
5. A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.

Related terms

• flying saucer
• sauce
• saucer eyes

Translations

small dish

• Afrikaans: piering
• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: زرف‎ m (zarf)

• Azerbaijani: nəlbəki (az)
• Catalan: sotacopa
• Cebuano: platito
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 茶托 (zh) (chátuó), 碟子 (zh) (diézi)

• Czech: podšálek m
• Danish: underkop (da) c
• Dutch: schotel (nl)
• Esperanto: subtaso
• Finnish: aluslautanen (fi), asetti (fi), teevati (fi)
• French: soucoupe (fr) f, sous-tasse (fr) f
• German: Untertasse (de) f
• Greek: πιατάκι (el) n (piatáki)
• Hungarian: csészealj (hu)
• Ido: subtaso (io)
• Indonesian: alas cangkir
• Irish: fochupán m, sásar m
• Italian: sottocoppa f, piattino (it) m
• Japanese: 受け皿 (うけざら, ukezara), ソーサー (sōsā)

• Korean: 컵 받침 (keop batchim)
• Latin: scutella f
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: hoeha
• Norman: souôtâsse f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tefat n, asjett m (small plate)

  Nynorsk: tefat n, asjett m (small plate)

• Persian: نعلبکی‎ (fa) (na'lbaki)
• Polish: spodek (pl) m
• Portuguese: pires (pt) m
• Russian: блю́дце (ru) n (bljúdce)
• Scottish Gaelic: flat m, sàsar m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тању̀рић m

  Roman: tanjùrić (sh) m

• Sotho: porinki
• Spanish: platillo m
• Swedish: tefat (sv) n
• Tagalog: suik, platito
• Welsh: soser (cy) f

object shaped like a saucer

• Danish: tallerken (da)
• Finnish: lautanen (fi)
• Irish: sásar m

• Italian: sottovaso (it) m
• Norwegian: tallerken (no) m

Verb

saucer (third-person singular simple present saucers, present participle saucering, simple past and past participle saucered)

1. (transitive) To pour (tea, etc.) from the cup into the saucer in order to cool it before drinking.

Anagrams

• SACEUR, Surace, causer, cesura

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• sauser, sawcer, sawcere, sawser, sawsere, sawcyr, sawsyr, sawsser

Etymology

From Old French saussier (and feminine saussiere); equivalent to sauce +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsau̯sər(ə)/

Noun

saucer (plural saucers)

1. A small receptacle or bowl for storing sauce in.
2. A small plate, bowl, or dish; a saucer.

Descendants

• English: saucer
• Scots: saucer

References

• “saucer(e (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-09.