sause

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

sause

1. inflection of sausen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Middle English

Noun

sause

1. Alternative form of sauce

Old French

Alternative forms

• salse, sausse
• sauce (late)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), from saliō.

Pronunciation

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /ˈsalsə/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsau̯sə/

Noun

sause oblique singular, f (oblique plural sauses, nominative singular sause, nominative plural sauses)

1. sauce (condiment)

Descendants

• French: sauce
• → Middle English: sauce, sause, sawce, sawse, salse, saus, saws
  • English: sauce
  • Scots: sauce