# supe
## English
### Alternative forms

* sup (superintendent or supervision)
* super

### Etymology

Clipping of super.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /sup/

### Noun

supe (plural supes)
* (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.
* (informal) Abbreviation of superintendent.
    Synonym: super
* (informal) Abbreviation of supervisor.
    Synonym: super
* (Cambridge University slang) Clipping of supervision.
    Synonym: sup
* (fiction) Short for superhero.
    Synonyms: sup, super

### See also

* supe up

### Anagrams

* spue

## Albanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsupɛ]

### Noun

supe
* indefinite nominative/accusative plural of sup

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsupɛ]

### Noun

supe
* vocative singular of sup

## French
### Verb

supe
* inflection of super:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* pues, pués

## Inari Sami
### Etymology

From Proto-Samic *supē.

### Noun

supe
* aspen

#### Further reading

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

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

supe m (definite singular supeen, indefinite plural supeer, definite plural supeene)
* alternative spelling of supé

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²sʉː.pə/

#### Verb

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

#### Verb

supe (present tense supar, past tense supa, past participle supa, passive infinitive supast, present participle supande, imperative supe/sup)
* to drink alcohol (regularly)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sʉˈpeː/

#### Noun

supe m (definite singular supeen, indefinite plural supear, definite plural supeane)
* alternative spelling of supé

### References

* “supe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* puse, supé

## Old English
### Verb

sūpe
* 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)
* 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: /ˈsupe/ [ˈsu.pe]
* Rhymes: -upe
* Syllabification: su‧pe

### Verb

supe
* first-person singular preterite indicative of saber