sup

• vt. ...を夕食にもてなす；一口、一口する
• vi.口にする；夕食を食べる
• n. 一口、少量
• n. （Sup）人の名前；（チェコ語）Sup.

古英語のsupan, 飲む, 吸う, 味わう, 原語ゲルマン語*supanan, 飲む, 吸う, PIE*sub, PIE*seue, ジュース, 液体に由来, 語源的にはsip, sop, スープと同じ。

古フランス語のsoper「食事をする」に由来し、通常は濃厚なスープにパンを浸して食べる。

sup (v.1)

"eat the evening meal," c. 1300, from Old French super, soper "dine, sup, dip bread in soup or wine, sop up" (Modern French souper), which probably is from soupe "broth" (see soup), until recently still the traditional evening meal of French workers.

sup (v.2)

"to sip, to take into the mouth with the lips," Old English supan (West Saxon), suppan, supian (Northumbrian) "to sip, taste, drink, swallow" (strong verb, past tense seap, past participle sopen), from Proto-Germanic *supanan (cognates: Old Norse supa "to sip, drink," Middle Low German supen, Dutch zuipen "to drink, tipple," Old High German sufan, German saufen "to drink, booze"), from PIE *sub-, possibly an extended form of root *seue- (2) "to take liquid" (cognates: Sanskrit sunoti "presses out juice," soma; Avestan haoma, Persian hom "juice;" Greek huetos "rain," huein "to rain;" Latin sugere "to suck," succus "juice, sap;" Lithuanian sula "flowing sap;" Old Church Slavonic soku "sap," susati "suck;" Middle Irish suth "sap;" Old English seaw "sap").

1. He had been invited to sup with a colleague and his wife.

彼はすでに同僚とその夫人と夕食を共にするように招待されている。

2.You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.

乳牛を売りたいだけでなく、牛乳も飲みたいとは言えない。

3."Even the President 's staunchest sup -porters have some issues where they simply must break ranks，"says Senator Lott.「大統領の最も忠実な支持者であっても、あることには命令を聞かない」と上院議員のロト氏は言う。Why，robbers，of course--who 'd you reckon？Sunday-school sup 'rintendents？"

「ねえ、他に誰がいると思う？もちろん強盗たちだよ。まさか主日学校の校長ではないのか？」

5.It takes a long spoon to sup with him.

彼と付き合うには気をつけて。