supe

• sup (superintendent or supervision)
• super

Clipping of super.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sup/

supe (plural supes)

1. (dated, slang, theater) Clipping of supernumerary (“an extra or walk-on”).

   Synonym: sup

   • 2010, Nora Titone, My Thoughts Be Bloody:

     John Wilkes would go south to Richmond, to join Ford's stock company at the old Marshall Theatre for the 1858–59 season. More work as a supe awaited “J. B. Wilkes,” but his wages this time would be better than in Philadelphia: $440 for the season, the same as his older brother earned in a week.

2. (informal) Abbreviation of superintendent.

   Synonym: super

3. (informal) Abbreviation of supervisor.

   Synonym: super

4. (Cambridge University slang) Clipping of supervision.

   Synonym: sup

5. (fiction) Clipping of superhero.

   Synonyms: sup, super

• supe up

• spue

• IPA^(key):

supe

1. indefinite nominative/accusative plural of sup

• IPA^(key):

supe

1. vocative singular of sup

supe

1. inflection of super:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• pues, pués

From Proto-Samic *supē.

supe

1. aspen

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

supe m (definite singular supeen, indefinite plural supeer, definite plural supeene)

1. alternative spelling of supé

From Old Norse súpa, from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną.

• IPA^(key): /²sʉː.pə/

supe (present tense syp, past tense saup, supine sope, past participle sopen, present participle supande, imperative sup)

1. to sip

supe (present tense supar, past tense supa, past participle supa, passive infinitive supast, present participle supande, imperative supe/sup)

1. to drink alcohol (regularly)

• IPA^(key): /sʉˈpeː/

supe m (definite singular supeen, indefinite plural supear, definite plural supeane)

1. alternative spelling of supé

• “supe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• puse, supé

sūpe

1. first-person singular present indicative of sūpan

• sope, soupe, souppe

From Late Latin suppa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô.

supe oblique singular, f (oblique plural supes, nominative singular supe, nominative plural supes)

1. soup (comestible liquid)

• soper

• Middle French: souppe
  • French: soupe (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: soupe, souope (continental)
  • → Dutch: soep
    • Afrikaans: soep
    • Negerhollands: soep, sop
    • → Caribbean Hindustani: supu
    • → Caribbean Javanese: sop, sup, supu
    • → Indonesian: sup
    • → Papiamentu: sòpi (from the diminutive), soppi
  • → Middle English: soupe, sowpe
    • English: soup
• → Middle High German: suppe
  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: supp

    Mòcheno: supp

  • German: Suppe (with influence from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch sope) (see there for further descendants)
  • Hunsrik: Supp
  • Luxembourgish: Zopp
  • Pennsylvania German: Supp
  • Yiddish: זופּ (zup)

From Old Spanish sope, from Vulgar Latin *sawpi, through methathesis from Latin sapuī, short counterpart to sapīvī.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsupe/
• Rhymes: -upe
• Syllabification: su‧pe

supe

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of saber