Saucer

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Middle English (denoting a condiment dish): from Old French saussier(e ) ‘sauce boat’, probably suggested by late Latin salsarium .


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From Middle English saucer, from Old French saussier (and feminine saussiere; hence modern French saucierm, saucièref).


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saucer (n.)

mid-14c., from Anglo-Latin saucerium and Old French saussier (Modern French saucière) "sauce dish," from Late Latin salsarium, neuter of salsarius "of or for salted things," from Latin salsus (see sauce (n.)). Originally a small dish or pan in which sauce is set on a table. Meaning "small, round, shallow vessel for supporting a cup and retaining any liquid which might be spilled" is attested from c. 1702.