sope

See also: sopé

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish sope.

Noun

sope (plural sopes)

1. A traditional Mexican food consisting of a masa base with various savory toppings.
   • 2023 July 7, Rick A. Martínez, “For the Best Tortillas (and Gorditas and Tetelas), You Need Fresh Masa”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 7 July 2023:

     They’re then ground into a homogeneous dough that holds whatever shape you choose to give it: thin circles for tortillas, thicker ones for gorditas and sopes, plump ovals for huaraches and triangles for black-bean stuffed tetelas.

Etymology 2

Noun

sope (countable and uncountable, plural sopes)

1. Obsolete form of soap.

Anagrams

• opes, pose, ESOP, peso, epos, EOPs, poës, Poes, poes, OPEs, posé, Epos, POEs, EPOs, peos, PEOs

Lozi

Noun

sope

1. January

References

• R. M. Mukuni, Silozi-English Phrase Book (1991)

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English sāpe, from Proto-West Germanic *saipā, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ.

Alternative forms

• sape (Early Middle English or Northern)
• soope, soppe, swope (Late Middle English)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ̝ːp(ə)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑːpə/ (Early Middle English)
• IPA^(key): /saːp/ (Northern)

Noun

sope (uncountable)

1. Soap; a cleaning agent (especially if liquid)
2. (rare, Early Middle English) A whitening agent.

Related terms

• sopere

Descendants

• English: soap (see there for further descendants)

  West Riding: sooap

• Middle Scots: saip
  • Scots: saip
• → Middle Irish: sóp
• → Old Norse: sápa
  • Icelandic: sápa
  • Faroese: sápa
  • Norwegian: såpa, såpe
    • → Danish: såpe
      • Norwegian Bokmål: såpe
  • Old Swedish: sāpa
    • Swedish: såpa
      • → Finnish: suopa, soopa

References

• “sōpe, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English sopa, from Proto-West Germanic *sopō, from Proto-Germanic *supô.

Alternative forms

• sop, soope

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ̞ːp(ə)/

Noun

sope (uncountable)

1. A sip; a small mouthful of drink.

Descendants

• English: soap, sope (dialectal)

References

• “sō̆pe, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Verb

sope

1. alternative form of soupen (“to dine”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse sópa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suːpə/

Verb

sope (imperative sop, present tense soper, passive sopes, simple past sopte, past participle sopt)

1. to sweep

   sope gulvet

   to sweep the floors

Derived terms

• sopelime

Related terms

• søppel

See also

• feie

References

• “sope” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sópa.

Alternative forms

• sopa (a-infinitive)

Verb

sope (present tense sopar/soper, past tense sopa/sopte, past participle sopa/sopt, passive infinitive sopast, present participle sopande, imperative sope/sop)

1. to sweep

   Synonym: feie

Derived terms

• sop n

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

sope

1. neuter of sopen

Participle

sope

1. neuter of sopen

Verb

sope

1. supine of supa

References

• “sope” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Esop, peso, pose

Old French

Noun

sope oblique singular, f (oblique plural sopes, nominative singular sope, nominative plural sopes)

1. alternative form of supe
   • before 1204, André de Coutances, Li Romanz des Franceis

     Tant que il a trempé son pain ;
     Si est de sa sope certain

     Since he wet his bread
     he is certain of his soup

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsope/ [ˈso.pe]
• Rhymes: -ope
• Syllabification: so‧pe

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Nahuatl tzopitl

Noun

sope m (plural sopes)

1. A Mexican food consisting of a thick corn tortilla with pinched-up sides, covered with refried beans and topped with lettuce, cheese, onion, or other ingredients.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

sope

1. inflection of sopar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative