saucisse
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French saucisse (“sausage”). Doublet of sausage.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /səʊˈsiːs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /soʊˈsis/
Noun edit
saucisse (plural saucisses)
- (mining, firearms) A long and slender pipe or bag, made of cloth well pitched, or of leather, filled with powder, and used to communicate fire to mines, caissons, bomb chests, etc.
- (fortification) A fascine of more than ordinary length.
Synonyms edit
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “saucisse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French saucice, from Late Latin [farta] salsīcia, ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
saucisse f (plural saucisses)
Derived terms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → English: saucisse
- → Georgian: სოსისი (sosisi)
- → Luxembourgish: Zoossiss
- → Russian: соси́ска (sosíska) (see there for further descendants)
- → Turkish: sosis
- → Vietnamese: xúc xích
Further reading edit
- “saucisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
saucisse m (definite singular saucissen, indefinite plural saucisser, definite plural saucissene)
- form removed by a 2021 spelling decision; superseded by sosiss
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
saucisse m (definite singular saucissen, indefinite plural saucissar, definite plural saucissane)