Potage
/ˈpɒt.ɪdʒ/noun
A thick soup or stew, especially in historical or formal usage.
Did you know?In medieval French and English, *potage* could mean almost any boiled dish, showing how food words often grew from the simplest act of transformation: putting raw ingredients into a pot.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*peh₂-
“to cook, heat, or boil”
Latin
Latin
pottus / potus
“drink; something taken in by mouth”
Late Latin
Latin
*pottaticum
“a dish cooked in a pot”
Old French
Old French
potage
“a dish cooked in a pot; broth, soup, stew”
Middle English
English
potage
“a boiled dish, soup, or pottage”
Modern English
English
potage
“a thick soup or stew”