zuppa

Borrowed from Italian zuppa. Doublet of soup.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzuːpə/, /ˈtsuːpə/

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zuppa (plural zuppas or zuppe)

1. Any of various Italian soups.

• zuppa toscana

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈd͡zup.pa/, (traditional) ^*/ˈt͡sup.pa/

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• Rhymes: -uppa
• Hyphenation: zùp‧pa

From Late Latin suppa, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *supô, *suppa (“slice of soaked bread; soup”) (whence English soup).

zuppa f (plural zuppe)

1. one of several types of soup

   Synonyms: brodo, minestra, minestrone

   Se non è zuppa è pan bagnato.

   Between two things, there is no substantial difference.

   (literally, “If it isn't soup, it's soaked bread.”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

zuppa

1. feminine singular of zuppo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

zuppa

1. inflection of zuppare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• zuppa in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• zuppa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• zuppa in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• zuppa in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• zuppa in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• zuppa in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• zuppa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Late Latin suppa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sup.pə/
• Rhymes: -uppə

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zuppa f (plural zuppe)

1. soup
2. soaked bread
   • 1789, Nicola Vottiero, Lo Specchio de la Cevertà o siano schirze morale, aliasse lo Calateo napolitano pe chi vo ridere, e ’mpararese de creianza:

     Non hanno da farese le zuppe co lo pretesto de provà si è nzipeto o salato.

     You are not meant to soak bread just to check whether it is salted.

From Late Latin suppa, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *supô, *suppa (“slice of soaked bread; soup”) (whence English soup).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sup.pa/,
• Rhymes: -uppa
• Hyphenation: zùp‧pa

zuppa f (plural zuppi)

1. soup