saucisse

Borrowed from French saucisse (“sausage”). Doublet of sausage.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səʊˈsiːs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /soʊˈsis/

saucisse (plural saucisses)

1. (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.
2. (fortification) A fascine of more than ordinary length.

• bacon (archaic)
• saucisson
• sausage

Inherited from Old French saucice, from Late Latin [farta] salsīcia, ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”).

• IPA^(key): /so.sis/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): [soː.sɪs]

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saucisse f (plural saucisses)

1. sausage (hot dog style)

• saucisson

• → English: saucisse
• → Georgian: სოსისი (sosisi)
• → Luxembourgish: Zoossiss
• →⇒ Russian: соси́ска (sosíska) (see there for further descendants)
• → Turkish: sosis
• → Persian: سوسیس (sosis)
• → Vietnamese: xúc xích

• “saucisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

saucisse m (definite singular saucissen, indefinite plural saucisser, definite plural saucissene)

1. form removed by a 2021 spelling decision; superseded by sosiss

saucisse m (definite singular saucissen, indefinite plural saucissar, definite plural saucissane)

1. (pre-2021) alternative form of sosiss