sup
Translingual edit
Symbol edit
sup
Synonyms edit
- (in a lattice) ∨
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /sʌp/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -ʌp
- Homophone: 'sup
- IPA(key): (abbreviations of supremum and of words beginning with super-) /sup/
Etymology 1 edit
The verb is from Middle English soupen, from Old English sūpan (“to sip, drink, taste”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną (compare Dutch zuipen (“to drink, tipple, booze”), German saufen (“to drink, booze”), Swedish supa (“to drink, swallow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sub-, compare Sanskrit सूप (sū́pa, “soup, broth”), from *sewe (“to take liquid”). More at suck.
The noun is from the verb. There is no evidence of continuity with Old English supa.[1] Compare Middle English soupe, from Old English sūpe, which has the same meaning as Middle English sope (“a mouthful or small amount of drink”),[2] from Old English sopa,[3] whence sop.
Verb edit
sup (third-person singular simple present sups, present participle supping, simple past and past participle supped)
- To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.
- 1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple:
- There I'll sup / Balm and nectar in my cup.
- 1893, Norman Gale, “A Walk”, in Orchard Songs, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews & John Lane; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 43:
- We stood upon the forehead of the hills, / And lifted up our hearts in prayer; / And as we halted, reverent, / Meseemed that Nature o’er us bent, / That she did bid us sup / From bread she gave and from her cup.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
sup (countable and uncountable, plural sups)
- A sip; a small amount of food or drink.
- 1898, Wilfred Woollam, “Fragments from Two Hearts”, in Child Illa and Other Poems, Sheffield: J. Arthur Bain; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., page 163:
- “Then, who,” the sick man meekly said, / “Shall heal the sick and hide the dead?— / “Snatch the despairer’s poisoned cup; / Clothe shame, and give the outcast sup?— / “Lighten, if only by a hair, / The load of human pain and care?”
- a. 1936, J[oseph] S[mith] Fletcher, “Assault of Hannah’s Castle”, in The Mill House Murder: Being the Last of the Adventures of Ronald Camberwell, Alfred A[braham] Knopf, Inc., published 1937, page 234:
- We’re sisters in a sort and I’ll take Louie home with me and give her sup and shelter.
- 1936, George Orwell, chapter 8, in Keep the Aspidistra Flying:
- A long, long sup of beer flowed gratefully down his gullet.
- 2010, Graley Herren, “Beckett on Television”, in S[tanley] E. Gontarski, editor, A Companion to Samuel Beckett, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, part IV (Acts of Performance), page 396:
- The hands touch B upon the head, give him sup from a cup and wipe his brow with a cloth, and finally embrace him as he slumps back down upon his desk.
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English soupen, suppen, Anglo-Norman super, from supe, soupe. More at soup.
Verb edit
sup (third-person singular simple present sups, present participle supping, simple past and past participle supped)
- To eat supper.
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
- ...I propose we should have up the cold pie, and let him sup.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
- I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will, I trust, excuse me that I do not join you; but I have dined already, and I do not sup.
Alternative forms edit
- soup (rare)
Translations edit
Etymology 3 edit
Procopic form of what's up (“how are you doing?”)
Interjection edit
sup?
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Etymology 4 edit
Adjective edit
sup (not comparable)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 5 edit
First syllable of superintendent.
Noun edit
sup (plural sups)
- (informal) Superintendent.
- 1932, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Scribner's Magazine - Volume 91, page 64:
- They had put in the stretch-out and they were laying people off and there was talk of a union. "Let's have a union." "Mr. Shaw won't stand for it. The sup won't stand for it."
- 2011, M. Thomas, Not Today, →ISBN, page 212:
- Cpl. Perez, the radio sup said, "Everything checks out OK, Sarge. We're up and working."
- 2012, Caroline Court, Rescuing Park Ranger Billie, →ISBN, page 55:
- But here comes the deputy vehicle, cruising right up to the shelter on the bike path. The sup is a retired county sheriff's deputy.
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 6 edit
First syllable of superior.
Noun edit
sup (plural sups)
- (mathematics) Supremum, upper limit.
- 2001, Mr. Paul Cashin, Mr. C. John McDermott, The Long-Run Behavior of Commodity Prices, →ISBN:
- Values for the sup W statistic in excess of the 5 percent critical value (2.75 for booms and 2.77 for slumps) indicate rejection of the null hypothesis of no change in the dureation of booms and slumps in real commodity prices.
- 2003 -, Serge Lang -, Complex Analysis, →ISBN, page 271:
- For a wide class of connected open sets U, not necessarily simply connected, one proves the existence of a harmonic function on U having given boundary value (satisfying suitable integrability conditions) by taking the sup of the subharmonic functions having this boundary value.
Derived terms edit
Etymology 7 edit
Clipping of supplement.
Noun edit
sup (plural sups)
Descendants edit
- → German: Sup
Etymology 8 edit
First syllable of supervision.
Noun edit
sup (plural sups)
Alternative forms edit
See also edit
- lup sup (etymologically unrelated to any of the above terms)
References edit
- ^ James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Sup (sɐp), sb.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume IX, Part 2 (Su–Th), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 165, column 1: “f. Sup v.1 There is no evidence of continuity with OE. súpa (cf. MLG. sûpe, early mod.Du. zuipe, Du. zuip, ON. súpa).”
- ^ “sǒupe, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007: “Etymology OE sūpe / Definitions (Senses and Subsenses) / 1. = sope n.(1).”
- ^ “sō̆pe, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007: “Etymology OE sopa / Definitions (Senses and Subsenses) / Note: Cp. soupe n.(2). / 1. A mouthful or small amount of drink; […]”.
Anagrams edit
Albanian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Albanian *tsupa, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱupos (compare English hip, Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos, “vertebra, hollow before the hip (in cattle)”)).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sup m (plural supe, definite supi, definite plural supet)
Declension edit
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Czech sup, from Proto-Slavic *sǫpъ (“vulture”). Cognate with Polish sęp, Lower Sorbian sup, Serbo-Croatian sȕp, and Russian сип (sip).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sup m anim
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch soep (“soup”), from French soupe, from Latin suppa, from Proto-Germanic *supô.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sup (first-person possessive supku, second-person possessive supmu, third-person possessive supnya)
- soup, any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture.
Derived terms edit
References edit
Further reading edit
- “sup” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Italian edit
Noun edit
sup m
Anagrams edit
Lower Sorbian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *sǫpъ (“vulture”). Cognate with Polish sęp, Czech sup, Serbo-Croatian sȕp, and Russian сип (sip).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sup m animal
- vulture (bird)
Declension edit
Further reading edit
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “sup”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999), “sup”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Nabi edit
Noun edit
sup
References edit
- transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66
Nigerian Pidgin edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
sup
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sǫpъ.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sȕp m (Cyrillic spelling су̏п)
Declension edit
References edit
- “sup” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovak edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sǫpъ.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sup m inan (genitive singular supa, nominative plural supy, genitive plural supov, declension pattern of dub)
Usage notes edit
- The usage of the 2nd declension pattern is limited to fairy tales and children stories.
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “sup”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Swedish edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ʉːp
Noun edit
sup c
- (a (complete) drinking of) a drink of hard liquor, a drink
- Synonyms: rackabajsare, pilleknarkare, styrketår
- Jag ska ta mig en sup
- I'm gonna have a drink
- Du verkar stressad, Nisse. Ta dig en sup så att du blir som folk.
- You seem stressed out, Nisse. Have a drink to straighten yourself out.
- (archaic) a gulp or small quantity of liquid
Usage notes edit
- Has a somewhat colloquially folksy tone when of having a drink in general.
- Small enough to be drunk in one gulp in (sense 1.1), and typically intended to be. Basically a shot, without the modern connotations. Often had with food.
Declension edit
Declension of sup | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | sup | supen | supar | suparna |
Genitive | sups | supens | supars | suparnas |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Verb edit
sup
- imperative of supa
References edit
- sup in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- sup in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- sup in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Verb edit
sup
- imperative of supa
Tok Pisin edit
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Noun edit
sup
Volapük edit
Noun edit
sup (nominative plural sups)