Noun: syrup
| Singular | syrup |
| Plural | syrups |
Sample Sentences
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maple syrup
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pancake syrup
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peaches in syrup
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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. [1922, Arthur J. P. Williams, Rural Industries of the West Country, page 42:]
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With jellies soother than the creamy curd, / And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; [...] [1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XXX, page 98:]
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cough syrup
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rose syrup
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Eventually, he or his staunch public tired of his easy-listening syrup, so Price recorded gospel for the Myrrh label before semi-retiring to his Golden Cross Ranch in Texas. [1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 266:]
Nouns inflected like syrup
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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.
2. 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
sirup', French Nouns '
sirop', Italian Nouns '
siroppo', Spanish Nouns '
jarabe', Portuguese Nouns '
xarope', Dutch Nouns '
siroop'.