Other forms: soups
Soup is the hot liquid food you eat with a spoon. A bowl of soup, tomato soup, make soup.
It is the oldest cooked dish there is in some form, and almost every cuisine has one built from whatever was cheap. Soup kitchens have fed the poor for two hundred years and the name has stuck to the whole idea. Note in the soup, meaning in trouble; soup up, meaning to make more powerful; and that soup and sop are the same word, from soaked bread.
1nounsoupHot liquid food eaten with a spoon.
“A bowl of hot soup is just what you need on a cold day.”
soup is a liquid food.
Old French soupe comes from Latin suppa, sopped bread, itself from a Germanic root. Sop and supper come from the same soaking.
Proto-Germanic
*supô
Latin
suppa — sopped bread
Old French
soupe
Middle English
soupe
English, today
soup
The noun is from Middle English soupe, sowpe, from Old French soupe, souppe, sope, from Latin suppa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic supô (compare Middle Dutch sope (“broth”)). a doublet of sop and zuppa. See also sup and supper. The verb is from the noun.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA