different between ketchup vs mayo

English

Alternative forms

• catsup
• catchup (obsolete)
• ketsup (dated)

Etymology

Uncertain, but probably ultimately from Chinese via Malay kicap, from Min Nan ?? (kê-chiap, “fish broth”), though precise path is unclear – there are related words in various Chinese dialects, and it may have entered English directly from Chinese. Cognate to Indonesian kecap, ketjap (“soy sauce”). Various other theories exist – see Ketchup: Etymology for extended discussion.

First appeared in English in the late 17th century in reference to a Southeast Asian sauce encountered by British traders and sailors. The Oxford English Dictionary notes that it was commonly used in the 18th century to refer to a variety of similar sauces with varying ingredients—"anchovies, mushrooms, walnuts, and oysters being particularly popular"—but by the late 19th century the current tomato ketchup became the most popular form.

Catsup (earlier catchup) is an alternative Anglicization, still in use in the U.S.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?t?.?p/, /?k?t?.?p/
• Homophone: catch-up (one pronunciation)

Noun

ketchup (countable and uncountable, plural ketchups)

1. (uncountable) A tomato-vinegar-based sauce, sometimes containing spices, onion or garlic, and (especially in the US) sweeteners.
2. (countable, now rare) Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes).
   • 1883, Cassell's Dictionary of Cookery (page lxxxiii)

     The bottles, however, were port bottles, but contained mushroom ketchup; […]

   • 2003, Inns and Bed and Breakfasts in Quebec 2003 (?Ulysses Travel Guides; page 46)

     To accompany meat, we prepare fruit ketchups and rhubarb chutney.

Usage notes

The spelling ketchup became significantly preferred in the United States due to the popularity of the Heinz brand, which shortly after its introduction in 1876 switched from catsup to this spelling to distinguish itself from competitors. Other major brands, such as Hunt, subsequently followed, with Del Monte only switching to ketchup in 1988.

This condiment is more commonly and somewhat ambiguously called tomato sauce outside of the Americas. In South Africa, the word ketchup is not generally understood.

Descendants

Translations

Verb

ketchup (third-person singular simple present ketchups, present participle ketchupping, simple past and past participle ketchupped)

1. (transitive) To cover with ketchup.
   • 1867, John Maddison Morton, Aunt Charlotte's maid: a farce in one act:

     It strikes me she's "ketchupped" the lot! I won't touch a morsel!

   • 1973, Horizon, page 15:

     "Well," said Chuck, ketchupping his hamburger, "I'd rather do without King Lear than put up with the human agony it sprang out of. I'd rather not have the Eroica than have the big bloody conqueror it tries to immortalize."

   • 2009, David Silverman, Twinkle, page 4:

     Their fellow diners, like their ketchupped grub, were appropriately dashed and splattered with paint and plaster, reading their Suns and Daily Mirror.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “ketchup”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Danish

Etymology

From English ketchup. Ultimately from Chinese. See English etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k??d??ub?]

Noun

ketchup c (singular definite ketchuppen, plural indefinite ketchupper)

1. (uncountable) ketchup (a tomate sauce with vinegar)
2. (countable) ketchup (a particular brand or type of ketchup)

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English ketchup. Ultimately from Chinese. See English etymology.

Pronunciation

Noun

ketchup m (plural ketchups, diminutive ketchupje n)

1. ketchup

Synonyms

• tomatenketchup

Derived terms

• curryketchup
• tomatenketchup

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English ketchup. Ultimately from Chinese. See English etymology.

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /k?t.?œp/
• (France, Quebec) IPA^(key): /k?t.??p/

Noun

ketchup m (plural ketchups)

1. ketchup

Further reading

• “ketchup” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.t??up/, (rare) /?k?.t??ap/

Noun

ketchup m inan

1. Alternative spelling of keczup.

Declension

Further reading

• ketchup in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• ketchup in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

ketchup m (plural ketchups)

1. Alternative spelling of catchup

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ketchup.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

ketchup m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. Alternative form of ke?ap

Spanish

Alternative forms

• kétchup

Etymology

Borrowed from English ketchup. Ultimately from Chinese. See English etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke?t??up/, [ke?t??up]

Noun

ketchup m (plural ketchups)

1. ketchup

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?t???p/

Etymology

From English ketchup

Noun

ketchup c

1. ketchup

West Frisian

Etymology

From English ketchup

Noun

ketchup c (no plural)

1. ketchup

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me?.o?/

Noun

mayo (countable and uncountable, plural mayos)

1. Clipping of mayonnaise.

2. (offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur, Internet slang) A white person.

Synonyms

• (white person): see whitey

Anagrams

• Amoy, Moya, moya

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin M?ius.

Noun

mayo m

1. May

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?ma.yo?/

Pronoun

mayò (Bikol Naga)

1. (indefinite) nothing, none

Adjective

mayò

1. absent

   Synonym: wara

   Antonyms: igwa, may

Dutch

Etymology

Clipping of mayonaise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?.jo?/
• Hyphenation: ma?yo
• Rhymes: -a?jo?

Noun

mayo f (plural mayo's)

1. (informal) mayonnaise

   Synonym: mayonaise

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mayo

Noun

mayo

1. May

Haitian Creole

Noun

mayo

1. t-shirt

Ido

Noun

mayo (plural mayi)

1. May (fifth month of the Gregorian calendar)

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) monati di la Gregoriala kalendario; januaro, februaro, marto, aprilo, mayo, junio, julio, agosto, septembro, oktobro, novembro, decembro ^{(Category: io:Months)}

Japanese

Romanization

mayo

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Moose Cree

Alternative forms

[script needed]

Noun

mayo (transliteration needed)

1. feces

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin M?ius, from M?ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?majo/

Noun

mayo m

1. May

   • ben uennas mayo

     Welcome, May!

Descendants

• Galician: maio
• Portuguese: maio
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: mai
  • Kabuverdianu: mai, maiu
  • ? Tetum: maiu

Portuguese

Noun

mayo m (plural mayos)

1. Obsolete spelling of maio

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin M?ius.

Pronunciation

Noun

mayo m (plural mayos)

1. May

Derived terms

• como agua de mayo

Descendants

• ? Bikol Central: Mayo
• ? Cebuano: Mayo
• ? Karao: Mayo
• ? Masbatenyo: Mayo
• ? Tagalog: Mayo
• ?? Classical Nahuatl: m?tztli mayo

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) mes del calendario gregoriano; enero, febrero, marzo, abril, mayo, junio, julio, agosto, septiembre, octubre, noviembre, diciembre ^{(Category: es:Months)}

Further reading

• “mayo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French maillot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?j?]

Noun

mayo (definite accusative mayoyu, plural mayolar)

1. swimsuit

Declension

See also

• bikini
• mayokini
• deniz ?ortu