Noun: sauce
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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Wo was his cook, but if his ſauce were / Poynaunt and ſhaꝛp, and redy al his geere. (Woe to his cook, except if his sauce was / sour and sharp, and all his equipment was ready […]) [c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 353–354:]
Nouns inflected like sauce
schimeringe,
synger,
serche,
sengle,
snoute,
saucer,
sauter,
sapour,
saphir,
sachel,
sculle,
scrape,
scrowe,
scisme,
sclate,
schyfe,
schyve,
schole,
schere,
schave, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French sause, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, from Latin salsus (“salted”). First attested in c. 1340. See: Latin Nouns '
salsus'.
Verbs referencing "sauce"
English Nouns
sauce.
Translations