different between potage vs porridge

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

Alternative forms

• parritch (Scotland)
• porage
• porrige

Etymology

Variant of pottage (“thick soup or stew”), influenced by porray (“stew of leeks”). The "prison sentence" sense comes from the British tradition of serving prisoners porridge for breakfast.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??.?d??/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?p???d??/
• (NYC) IPA^(key): /?p???d??/
• Rhymes: -???d?

Noun

porridge (usually uncountable, plural porridges)

1. A dish made of grain or legumes, milk and/or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
2. (chiefly Britain) Oatmeal porridge.
3. (Britain, slang) A prison sentence.

4. (rare) A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.

Translations

See also

• congee
• gruel
• oatmeal
• stiff porridge

Further reading

• porridge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Périgord