different between potage vs broth

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French potage, and from earlier borrowing pottage.

Noun

potage (countable and uncountable, plural potages)

1. A thick creamy soup.

See also

• pottage

Anagrams

• top age, top-age, topage

French

Etymology

Old French, pot +? -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.ta?/

Noun

potage m (plural potages)

1. soup (dish)

Synonyms

• soupe

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Catalan: potatge
• ? Spanish: potaje

Further reading

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pottage, potache, potege (all rare)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??ta?d?(?)/

Noun

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.

Descendants

• English: pottage; porridge
• Scots: pottage; parritch

References

• “pot??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.

Old French

Etymology

pot +? -age.

Noun

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

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

Descendants

• ? Middle English: potage, pottage, potache, potege
  • English: pottage; porridge
  • Scots: pottage; parritch
• French: potage
  • ? Catalan: potatge
  • ? Spanish: potaje
• ? Welsh: potes

References

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English broth, from Old English broþ (“broth”), from Proto-West Germanic *broþ (“broth”), from Proto-Germanic *bruþ? (“broth”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?rewh?- (“to seethe, roil, brew”). Akin to Old English breowan (“to brew”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /b???/, enPR: brôth
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /b???/, enPR: br?th
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b???/, enPR: br?th
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

broth (countable and uncountable, plural broths)

1. (uncountable) Water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled.

   Synonyms: bouillon, liquor, pot liquor, stock

2. (countable) A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• dashi
• souse
• stock

Descendants

• ? Scottish Gaelic: brot

Anagrams

• Borth, throb

Irish

Noun

broth m (genitive singular brotha)

1. Alternative form of bruth (“heat; rash, eruption; nap, pile, covering”)

Declension

Mutation

References

• "broth" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• broð, broþ, brotthe, broþþe, broththe

Etymology

From Old English broþ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br??/

Noun

broth (plural brothes)

1. Water in which something (usually food) has been boiled; broth.

Descendants

• English: broth
  • ? Scottish Gaelic: brot
• Scots: broth

References

• “broth, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-09.