Pottage

Pottage
Recorded as Potage, Pottage, Pottager, and Pottinger, this is an English surname. It is however of French occupational origins, deriving from the word "potagier" meaning a maker of pottage, a thick soup or stew. Pottage was a favourite dish of food in olden days and the Pottager from his knowledge of herbs gradually became looked upon as a medicine man or herbalist. Occupational surnames originally denoted the actual occupation followed by an individual and later became hereditary. The surname is first recorded in the beginning of the 14th Century (see below). One Walter le Potager appears in the 1321 Parliamentary Writs of Oxfordshire and John Potyngar, is noted as a witness in the Court Rolls of the Borough of Colchester in 1356. On January 14th 1599, Scolastica Pottinger married Robert Peacoke at St. James, Clerkenwell, London. A Coat of Arms granted to the Pottinger family depicts a gold eastern crown between three pelicans in their piety proper on a green shield, on a silver canton (top left hand corner) is a red cross. On the crest is a dexter arm embowed in armour grasping a sword all proper surmounted by an eastern crown. The motto "Virtus in audua" translates as "Courage against difficulties". The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Walter le Potagier which was dated 1300, witness, in the "London Court Rolls", during the reign of King Edward 1st, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1307. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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  • Pottage — Pot tage (?; 48), n. [F. potage, fr. pot pot. See {Pot}, and cf. {Porridge}, {Porringer}.] A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge. [Written also {potage}.] Chaucer.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • pottage — early 13c., lit. that which is put in a pot, from O.Fr. potage soup, from pot pot (see POT (Cf. pot) (1)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • pottage — ► NOUN archaic ▪ soup or stew. ORIGIN Old French potage that which is put into a pot ; compare with POTAGE(Cf. ↑P) and PORRIDGE(Cf. ↑porridge) …   English terms dictionary

  • pottage — [pät′ij] n. [ME potage < MFr < pot, POT1] a kind of thick soup or stew made of vegetables, or meat and vegetables …   English World dictionary

  • Pottage — Yam porridge (or yam pottage) is an Igbo dish known as awaị[1] Pottage is a thick soup or stew made by boiling vegetables, grains, and, if available, meat or fish. It was a staple food of all …   Wikipedia

  • pottage — noun A thick soup or stew. He is a portly man, though he lives on pottage and mashes …   Wiktionary

  • pottage — /ˈpɒtɪdʒ/ (say potij) noun 1. a thick soup made of vegetables, without or with meat. –phrase 2. mess of pottage, a small and contemptible portion, reward, etc. {Middle English potage, from Old French, from pot pot} …  

  • pottage — noun Etymology: Middle English potage, from Anglo French, from pot pot, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English pott pot Date: 13th century a thick soup of vegetables and often meat …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • pottage — /pot ij/, n. a thick soup made of vegetables, with or without meat. [1175 1225; ME potage < OF: lit., something in or from a POT1; see AGE] * * * …   Universalium

  • Pottage —    Heb. nazid, boiled , a dish of boiled food, as of lentils (Gen. 25:29; 2 Kings 4:38) …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

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