syrup
/ˈsɪɹ.əp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "maple syrup"
- "pancake syrup"
- "peaches in syrup"
- "In Somerset, for example, the local farmers would often boil down the beet juice to create a honey tender, a viscous syrup that sweetened the harvest porridge."
- "With jellies soother than the creamy curd, / And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; [...]"
- "cough syrup"
Etymology
From Middle English sirup, from Old French sirop, from Medieval Latin siruppus, syrupus, from Arabic شَرَاب (šarāb, “a drink, beverage, wine, coffee, syrup”), from شَرِبَ (šariba, “to drink”). Doublet of sirop. Related to sorbet, sherbet, sharbat. Compare French sirop, Italian siroppo, sciroppo, Spanish jarabe, jarope, Portuguese xarope, and Dutch siroop and stroop. The first known use of the spelling sirup was in the 14th century.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsɪɹ.əp/
- British English: /ˈsɪ.ɹəp/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.