catchup
English
Etymology 1
See ketchup § Etymology.
Noun
catchup (countable and uncountable, plural catchups)
Etymology 2
Etymology tree
English catchup
Deverbal from catch up.
Noun
catchup (countable and uncountable, plural catchups)
- Alternative spelling of catch-up.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌkɛt͡ʃˈʃu.pi/, /ˌkɛ.t͡ʃiˈʃu.pi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌkɛt͡ʃˈʃu.pe/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɛˈt͡ʃɐ.pɨ/
Noun
catchup m (plural catchups)
- (uncommon) alternative spelling of ketchup
Further reading
- “catchup”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English catchup.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkat͡ʃop/ [ˈka.t͡ʃop]
- Rhymes: -atʃop
- IPA(key): /ˈkat͡ʃap/ [ˈka.t͡ʃap]
- Rhymes: -atʃap
- IPA(key): /katˈt͡ʃup/ [kat̚ˈt͡ʃup]
- Rhymes: -up
- Syllabification: cat‧chup
Noun
catchup m (plural catchups)
- alternative form of ketchup
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
- Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “catchup”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA