supe

See also: supé

English

Alternative forms

• sup (superintendent or supervision)
• super

Etymology

Clipping of super.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sup/

Noun

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) Short for superhero.

   Synonyms: sup, super

See also

• supe up

Anagrams

• spue

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsupɛ]

Noun

supe

1. indefinite nominative/accusative plural of sup

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsupɛ]

Noun

supe

1. vocative singular of sup

French

Verb

supe

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

Anagrams

• pues, pués

Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *supē.

Noun

supe

1. aspen

Inflection

Even e-stem, p-v gradation
Nominative	supe
Genitive	suve
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	supe	suveh
Accusative	suve	suuvijd
Genitive	suve	suvij suuvij
Illative	supán	suuvijd
Locative	suuveest	suuvijn
Comitative	suuvijn	suvijguin
Abessive	suvettáá	suvijttáá
Essive	suppeen
Partitive	suppeed
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person — — — 2nd person — — — 3rd person — — —

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

1. alternative spelling of supé

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²sʉː.pə/

Verb

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

1. to sip

Verb

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

1. to drink alcohol (regularly)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʉˈpeː/

Noun

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

1. alternative spelling of supé

References

• “supe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• puse, supé

Old English

Verb

sūpe

1. first-person singular present indicative of sūpan

Old French

Alternative forms

• sope, soupe, souppe

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. soup (comestible liquid)

Derived terms

• soper

Descendants

• Middle French: souppe
  • French: soupe (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: soupe, souope (continental Normandy)
  • → 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)

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

supe

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of saber