souper

See also: Souper and soupeř

English

Etymology

soup +‎ -er

Noun

souper (plural soupers)

1. (Ireland, historical) Someone who, during the Irish famine, supplied food such as soup to Catholics who converted to Protestantism.
2. (Ireland, historical) A (former) Catholic who converted to Protestantism in order to gain such food.

   Croghan Soupers

Related terms

• souperism

Anagrams

• Roupes, poseur, rose up, supero-, uprose

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French soupper, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French soper, derived from supe, sope (“soup”) (modern French soupe).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.pe/

• Audio:

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Noun

souper m (plural soupers)

1. (Switzerland, Belgium, Quebec, Louisiana) dinner (the main evening meal)

   Veuillez m'excuser, je serai en retard pour le souper.

2. (France) a light meal eaten at night, after the main evening meal

Verb

souper

1. to dine

   J'ai hâte d'aller souper!

Conjugation

Conjugation of souper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	souper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	soupant /su.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		soupé /su.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	soupe /sup/	soupes /sup/	soupe /sup/	soupons /su.pɔ̃/	soupez /su.pe/	soupent /sup/
	imperfect	soupais /su.pɛ/	soupais /su.pɛ/	soupait /su.pɛ/	soupions /su.pjɔ̃/	soupiez /su.pje/	soupaient /su.pɛ/
	past historic2	soupai /su.pe/	soupas /su.pa/	soupa /su.pa/	soupâmes /su.pam/	soupâtes /su.pat/	soupèrent /su.pɛʁ/
	future	souperai /su.pʁe/	souperas /su.pʁa/	soupera /su.pʁa/	souperons /su.pʁɔ̃/	souperez /su.pʁe/	souperont /su.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	souperais /su.pʁɛ/	souperais /su.pʁɛ/	souperait /su.pʁɛ/	souperions /su.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	souperiez /su.pə.ʁje/	souperaient /su.pʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	soupe /sup/	soupes /sup/	soupe /sup/	soupions /su.pjɔ̃/	soupiez /su.pje/	soupent /sup/
	imperfect2	soupasse /su.pas/	soupasses /su.pas/	soupât /su.pa/	soupassions /su.pa.sjɔ̃/	soupassiez /su.pa.sje/	soupassent /su.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	soupe /sup/	—	soupons /su.pɔ̃/	soupez /su.pe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• soupe

Further reading

• “souper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• poseur, proues

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French soper, derived from supe, sope (“soup”) (modern French soupe).

Noun

souper m (plural soupers)

1. supper (meal)