potage

Borrowed from French potage, and from earlier borrowing pottage.

potage (countable and uncountable, plural potages)

1. A thick creamy soup.

• pottage

• top age, top-age, topage

From Old French, pot +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.taʒ/

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potage m (plural potages)

1. soup (dish)

   Synonym: soupe

• → Catalan: potatge
• → Spanish: potaje

• “potage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• potache, pottage, potege (all rare)

Borrowed from Old French potage; equivalent to pot +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /pɔˈtaːd͡ʒ(ə)/

potage (plural potages)

1. pottage (a stew or casserole)
2. A pudding or slurry; any dish made of thick, runny liquid.
3. Greens or vegetables; plant matter as used in food.
4. (rare) A cataplasm; a pad on a wound to relieve.
5. (rare) A beverage; a liquid concoction.

• English: pottage; porridge
• Scots: pottage; parritch
• Yola: porachès (plural)

• “potāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 22 July 2018.

pot +‎ -age.

potage oblique singular, m (oblique plural potages, nominative singular potages, nominative plural potage)

1. soup; broth (etc.) cooked in a pot

• → Middle English: potage, potache, pottage, potege (all rare)
  • English: pottage; porridge
  • Scots: pottage; parritch
  • Yola: porachès (plural)
• French: potage
  • → Catalan: potatge
  • → Spanish: potaje
• → Welsh: potes

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (potage)
• Etymology and history of “potage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.