sup

sup

1. (mathematics) supremum

• (in a lattice) ∨

• IPA^(key): /sʌp/

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• Rhymes: -ʌp
• Homophone: 'sup
• IPA^(key): (abbreviations of supremum and of words beginning with super-) /sup/

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. Compare Middle English soupe, from Old English sūpe, which has the same meaning as Middle English sope (“a mouthful or small amount of drink”), from Old English sopa, whence sop.

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: 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.

• soup

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 S Fletcher, “Assault of Hannah’s Castle”, in The Mill House Murder: Being the Last of the Adventures of Ronald Camberwell, Alfred A 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 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.

• soup

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

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

1. 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.

• soup (rare)

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

sup?

2. (slang) what's up (either as a greeting or actual question)

   Synonyms: t'sup, wassup, w'sup, wudup

   — Sup?
   — Not much.

• ssup, 'sup, s'up, zup

From s- +‎ up.

sup (not comparable)

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

   Antonym: sdown

• sup squark

First syllable of superintendent.

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.

• supe

First syllable of superior.

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.

• lim sup

Clipping of supplement.

sup (plural sups)

1. (bodybuilding, colloquial) Supplement.

• → German: Sup

First syllable of supervision.

sup (plural sups)

1. (Cambridge University slang) A supervision.

• supe

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

• PSU, PUS, PUs, UPS, UPs, USP, psu, pus, ups

• cup — Gheg

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

• IPA^(key): /sup/

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

1. (anatomy) shoulder

   Synonyms: mushk, shpatull

• “sup”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe ‎, 1980
• Newmark, L. (1999) “sup”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎

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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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• Rhymes: -up

sup m anim (relational adjective supí)

1. vulture

• “sup”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “sup”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “sup”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

• SUP

From English SUP, short for standup paddleboard.

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sup m (plural sups, diminutive supje n)

1. (sports) a standup paddleboard

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

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• Hyphenation: sup

sup (plural sup-sup)

1. soup (primarily liquid food)

   Synonyms: kaldu, kuah

   Satu di antaranya adalah soto dan sup. ― One of them is soto and soup.

• “sup” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

sup m

1. stand up paddleboard

• pus

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

• IPA^(key): /sup/

sup m anim

1. vulture (bird)

• 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

sup

1. water

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

From English soup.

sup

1. soup

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sǫpъ.

• IPA^(key): /sûp/

sȕp m (Cyrillic spelling су̏п)

1. vulture

   Synonyms: lèšinār, str̀vinār

• “sup”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sǫpъ.

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sup m animal (relational adjective supí)

1. vulture

• “sup”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• Rhymes: -ʉːp

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

• 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.

• kallsup

• supa

sup

1. imperative of supa

• sup in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sup in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sup in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

sup

1. imperative of supa

From English soup.

sup

1. soup

sup (nominative plural sups)

1. soup