ketchup – English noun declension

English noun forms of ketchup

Noun: ketchup
Singularketchup
Pluralketchups

Sample Sentences

  • tomato ketchup
  • This diner serves ketchup in red bottles, and mustard in yellow ones.
  • The bottles, however, were port bottles, but contained mushroom ketchup; […] [1883, Cassell's Dictionary of Cookery, page lxxxiii:]
  • To accompany meat, we prepare fruit ketchups and rhubarb chutney. [2003, Inns and Bed and Breakfasts in Quebec 2003, Ulysses Travel Guides, page 46:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Hokkien 膎汁 (kê-chiap)der.
3. Malay kecapbor.?
4. English ketchup
5. Uncertain, but probably ultimately from Hokkien 膎汁 (kê-chiap, “fish sauce”) via Malay kecap ~ kicap “any dark clear sauce from soy, fish etc”, though the precise path is unclear – there are related words in various Chinese languages. Various other theories exist – see Ketchup: Etymology for extended discussion.
6. First appeared in English in the late 17th century in reference to a Southeast Asian sauce encountered by British traders and sailors. The Oxford English Dictionary notes that it was commonly used in the 18th century to refer to a variety of similar sauces with varying ingredients—"anchovies, mushrooms, walnuts, and oysters being particularly popular"—but by the late 19th century the current tomato ketchup became the most popular form.
7. Catsup (earlier catchup) is an alternative Anglicization, still in use in the U.S., though it is now somewhat rare.

Verbs referencing "ketchup"

Danish Nouns ketchup, Dutch Nouns ketchup, French Nouns ketchup, Italian Nouns ketchup, Swedish Nouns ketchup, Finnish Nouns ketsuppi, Dutch Nouns ketjap, Polish Nouns keczup, Belarusan Nouns кетчуп, Russian Nouns кетчуп, Ukrainian Nouns кетчуп, German Nouns Ketchup, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns ketsjup, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns ketsjup, Catalan Nouns quètxup, Faroese Nouns ketsjupp.