pottage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a thick soup or stew made by slowly boiling vegetables, grains, and sometimes meat

   The household shared a pottage of peas, barley, onions, and salted pork.

2. 2
   noun

   historical: a staple one-pot dish of boiled ingredients, especially in medieval and early modern Europe

   For many laborers, bread and pottage formed the ordinary evening meal.

Simplified etymology

Pottage entered Middle English from Old French potage, meaning “something put in a pot.” Its later altered form porridge initially referred to a barley-thickened soup before becoming the name of the familiar oatmeal dish.

From Middle English pottage and Anglo-French potage, formed from pot + -age. It originally named food cooked in a pot and became especially associated with the thick soups and stews that were staple dishes in medieval Europe.

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