broth
pronunciation
How to pronounce broth in British English:
UK [brɒθ]
How to pronounce broth in American English:
US [brɔθ]
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- Noun:
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- a thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock
Word Origin
- broth
- broth: [OE] Broth comes ultimately from the Indo-European base *bhreu- or *bhru- ‘heat, boil’, which also produced brew and fervent. Etymologically, therefore, it means ‘liquid in which something has been boiled’. The notion of ‘heating’ has now disappeared, but it seems to have survived into the modern English period, as is shown by such compounds as snow-broth ‘melted snow’, first recorded at the end of the 16th century.The Germanic form *brotham was borrowed into Vulgar Latin as *brodo, which came via Old French broez into 13th-century English as broys or browes. This survives in Scottish English as brose ‘type of porridge’, as in Atholl brose.=> brew, fervent, imbrue
- broth (n.)
- Old English broþ, from Proto-Germanic *bruthan (cognates: Old High German *brod), from verb root *bhreue- "to heat, boil, bubble; liquid in which something has been boiled" (source also of Old English breowan "to brew;" see brew (v.)). Picked up from Germanic by the Romanic and Celtic languages. The Irishism broth of a boy, which is in Byron, was "thought to originate from the Irish Broth, passion -- Brotha passionate, spirited ..." [Farmer], and if so is not immediately related.
Example
- 1. What to do she did not know , for the broth must be made .
- 2. Roasting will intensify their sweetness , while simmering will yield a delicious broth .
- 3. Add the beets , begin to add the broth , 1 / 2 up at a time , stirring well after each addition .
- 4. In the corner dickie and his cooks are enveloped in steam rising from vats of boiling water and broth .
- 5. However , it can contain more fish than broth and can hardly be called a soup .