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sup

See also: SUP, súp, 'sup, sup., Sup., šup, and суп

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sup

  1. (mathematics) supremum

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  • (in a lattice) ∨

English

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Etymology 1

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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

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sup (third-person singular simple present sups, present participle supping, simple past and past participle supped)

  1. 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.
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 60:
      On market days the farmers would come in before going home - Tysons and Lindsays and Birketts and Longmires and Boows and Dawsons - and their dogs would lie in heaps on the flags while they themselves supped Gerald's ale.
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Noun

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sup (countable and uncountable, plural sups)

  1. 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.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English soupen, suppen, Anglo-Norman super, from supe, soupe. More at soup.

Verb

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sup (third-person singular simple present sups, present participle supping, simple past and past participle supped)

  1. To eat supper.
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Etymology 3

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Procopic form of what's up (“how are you doing?”)

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sup?

  2. (slang) what's up (either as a greeting or actual question)
    Synonyms: t'sup, wassup, w'sup, wudup
    — Sup?
    — Not much.
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Etymology 4

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From s- +‎ up.

Adjective

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sup (not comparable)

  1. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of an up quark.
    Antonym: sdown
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Etymology 5

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First syllable of superintendent.

Noun

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sup (plural sups)

  1. (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.
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Etymology 6

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First syllable of superior.

Noun

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sup (plural sups)

  1. (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.
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Etymology 7

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Clipping of supplement.

Noun

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sup (plural sups)

  1. (bodybuilding, colloquial) Supplement.
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  • → German: Sup

Etymology 8

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First syllable of supervision.

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sup (plural sups)

  1. (Cambridge University slang) A supervision.
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See also

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  • lup sup (etymologically unrelated to any of the above terms)

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  1. ^ 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).”
  2. ^ “sǒupe, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007: “Etymology  OE sūpe / Definitions (Senses and Subsenses) / 1. = sope n.(1).”
  3. ^ “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; […]”.

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Albanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Albanian *tsupa, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱupos (compare English hip, Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos, “vertebra, hollow before the hip (in cattle)”)).

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Noun

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sup m (plural supe, definite supi, definite plural supet)

  1. (anatomy) shoulder
    Synonyms: mushk, shpatull

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Declension of sup
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative sup supi supe supet
accusative supin
dative supi supit supeve supeve
ablative supesh

Czech

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Sup

Etymology

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Inherited from Old Czech sup, from Proto-Slavic *sǫpъ (“vulture”). Cognate with Polish sęp, Lower Sorbian sup, Serbo-Croatian sȕp, and Russian сип (sip).

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Noun

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sup m anim

  1. vulture

Declension

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Declension of sup (hard masculine animate)
singular plural
nominative sup supi, supové
genitive supa supů
dative supovi, supu supům
accusative supa supy
vocative supe supi, supové
locative supovi, supu supech
instrumental supem supy

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Further reading

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  • “sup”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “sup”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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Etymology

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From English SUP, short for standup paddleboard.

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sup m (plural sups, diminutive supje n)

  1. (sports) a standup paddleboard

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch soep (“soup”), from French soupe, from Latin suppa, from Proto-Germanic *supô.

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  • IPA(key): [ˈsʊp̚]
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  • Hyphenation: sup

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sup (first-person possessive supku, second-person possessive supmu, third-person possessive supnya)

  1. soup (primarily liquid food)
    Synonyms: kaldu, kuah
    Satu di antaranya adalah soto dan sup.[1] ― One of them is soto and soup.

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  1. ^ 2007, Soto & Sup Nusantara-Citarasa tradisional, Gramedia Pustaka Utama (→ISBN), page 3.

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Italian

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sup m

  1. stand up paddleboard

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Lower Sorbian

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sup

Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *sǫpъ (“vulture”). Cognate with Polish sęp, Czech sup, Serbo-Croatian sȕp, and Russian сип (sip).

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Noun

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sup m anim

  1. vulture (bird)

Declension

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Declension of sup
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative sup supa supy
Genitive supa supowu supow
Dative supoju supoma supam
Accusative supa supowu supy, supow
Instrumental supom supoma supami
Locative supje supoma supach

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  • 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

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sup

  1. water

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  • 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

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Etymology

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From English soup.

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sup

  1. soup

Serbo-Croatian

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Sȕp

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sǫpъ.

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sȕp m (Cyrillic spelling су̏п)

  1. vulture
    Synonyms: lèšinār, str̀vinār

Declension

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Declension of sup
singular plural
nominative sȕp sùpoví
genitive supa supova
dative supu supovima
accusative supa supove
vocative supe supovi
locative supu supovima
instrumental supom supovima

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  • “sup”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Slovak

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Sup

Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sǫpъ.

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sup m animal (related adjective supí)

  1. vulture

Declension

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Declension of sup
singular plural
nominative sup supy
genitive supa supov
dative supovi supom
accusative supa supy
locative supovi supoch
instrumental supom supmi

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  • “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, 2003–2024

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sup c

  1. (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.
    2. (a (complete) drinking of) a small amount of hard liquor, typically aquavit or another clear liquor, served in a small glass
      Synonyms: snaps, nubbe, hutt
  2. (archaic) a gulp or small quantity of liquid

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  • 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

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Declension of sup
nominative genitive
singular indefinite sup sups
definite supen supens
plural indefinite supar supars
definite suparna suparnas

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sup

  1. imperative of supa

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Verb

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sup

  1. imperative of supa

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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From English soup.

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sup

  1. soup

Volapük

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Noun

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sup (nominative plural sups)

  1. soup

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declension of sup
singular plural
nominative sup sups
genitive supa supas
dative supe supes
accusative supi supis
vocative 1 o sup! o sups!
predicative 2 supu supus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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