sup

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

Translingual

Symbol

sup

  1. (mathematics) supremum

Synonyms

  • (in a lattice) ∨

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʌp/
  • Rhymes: -ʌp
  • Homophone: 'sup

Etymology 1

From Middle English suppen, from Old English sūpan (“to swallow, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną (compare Dutch zuipen (“to drink, tipple, booze”), German saufen (“to drink, booze”), Swedish supa (“to swallow, drink”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sub-, compare Sanskrit सूप (sū́pa, “soup, broth”), from *sewe (“to take liquid”). More at suck.

Verb

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.
    • Crashaw
      There I'll sup / Balm and nectar in my cup.

Noun

sup (plural sups)

  1. A sip; a small amount of food or drink.
    • 1936, George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, chapter 8
      A long, long sup of beer flowed gratefully down his gullet.

Alternative forms

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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

  1. To take supper.
    • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
      ...I propose we should have up the cold pie, and let him sup.
    • 1879, Bram Stoker, Dracula
      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.

Etymology 3

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

Interjection

sup?

  1. (slang) what's up (either as a greeting or actual question)
    — Sup?
    — Not much.
    Synonyms: wassup, wudup

Etymology 4

From s- +‎ up.

Adjective

sup (not comparable)

  1. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of an up quark.

Etymology 5

First syllable of superintendent

Noun

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.

Etymology 6

First syllable of superior

Noun

sup (plural sups)

  1. (mathematics) 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.

Anagrams

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

sup m (indefinite plural supe, definite singular supi)

  1. (anatomy) shoulder
    Synonyms: mushk, shpatull

Czech

Etymology

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

Noun

sup m anim

  1. vulture

Declension

Derived terms

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch.

Noun

sup

  1. soup

Interlingue

Noun

sup

  1. soup

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sup/

Noun

sup m

  1. vulture (bird)

Declension

Nabi

Noun

sup

  1. water

References

  • 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

Etymology

From English soup.

Noun

sup

  1. soup

Serbo-Croatian

Sȕp

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sǫpъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sûp/

Noun

sȕp m (Cyrillic spelling су̏п)

  1. vulture
    Synonyms: lèšinār, str̀vinār

Declension

References

  • “sup” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sǫpъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsup/

Noun

sup m (genitive singular supa, nominative plural supy, genitive plural supov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. vulture

Usage notes

The usage of the 2nd declension pattern is limited to fairy tales and children stories.

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • sup in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʉːp

Noun

sup c

  1. a mouthful of liquor (spirits)
    Synonyms: snaps, nubbe, hutt, rackabajsare, pilleknarkare

Declension

Declension of sup 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sup supen supar suparna
Genitive sups supens supars suparnas

Verb

sup

  1. imperative of supa.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English soup.

Noun

sup

  1. soup

Volapük

Noun

sup (plural sups)

  1. soup

Declension

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