potage
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French potage, and from earlier borrowing pottage.
Noun edit
potage (countable and uncountable, plural potages)
- A thick creamy soup.
See also edit
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French, pot + -age.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
potage m (plural potages)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “potage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old French potage; equivalent to pot + -age.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
potage (plural potages)
- pottage (a stew or casserole)
- A pudding or slurry; any dish made of thick, runny liquid.
- Greens or vegetables; plant matter as used in food.
- (rare) A cataplasm; a pad on a wound to relieve.
- (rare) A beverage; a liquid concoction.
Descendants edit
References edit
- “potāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
potage oblique singular, m (oblique plural potages, nominative singular potages, nominative plural potage)
Descendants edit
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (potage)
- Etymology and history of “potage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.