potage
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French potage, and from earlier borrowing pottage.
Noun
potage (countable and uncountable, plural potages)
- A thick creamy soup.
See also
- pottage
Anagrams
- top age, top-age, topage
French
Etymology
Old French, pot + -age.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔ.taʒ/
potage (file)
Noun
potage m (plural potages)
- soup (dish)
- Synonym: soupe
Derived terms
- couille dans le potage
- potage Crécy
- potage Esaü
- potager
- potage Saint-Germain
- pour tout potage
Descendants
- → Catalan: potatge
- → Spanish: potaje
Further reading
- “potage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- potache, pottage, potege (all rare)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French potage; equivalent to pot + -age.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔˈtaːd͡ʒ(ə)/
Noun
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
- English: pottage; porridge
- Scots: pottage; parritch
- Yola: porachès
References
- “potāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.
Old French
Etymology
pot + -age.
Noun
potage m (oblique plural potages, nominative singular potages, nominative plural potage)
- soup; broth (etc.) cooked in a pot
Descendants
- → Middle English: potage, potache, pottage, potege
- English: pottage; porridge
- Scots: pottage; parritch
- Yola: porachès
- French: potage
- → Catalan: potatge
- → Spanish: potaje
- → Welsh: potes
References
- 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.