Gestapo
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See also: gestapo
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from German Gestapo, a contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
the Gestapo
- (historical, Nazism) The secret police of Nazi Germany.
- 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, page 227:
- Fortunately this was Spain and not Germany. The Spanish secret police had some of the spirit of the Gestapo, but not much of its competence.
- (informal, derogatory, by extension) Any militant oppressive force or group.
- 2009, Ian Dunbar, More Than a Puff of Smoke, page 230:
- Men were frog-marched by the feminist Gestapo into accepting an alien 'politically correct' agenda.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
the secret police of Nazi Germany
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Further reading[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gestapo
- Gestapo (Nazi secret police)
Declension[edit]
Inflection of Gestapo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Gestapo | — | ||
genitive | Gestapon | — | ||
partitive | Gestapoa | — | ||
illative | Gestapoon | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Gestapo | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Gestapo | — | |
gen. | Gestapon | |||
genitive | Gestapon | — | ||
partitive | Gestapoa | — | ||
inessive | Gestapossa | — | ||
elative | Gestaposta | — | ||
illative | Gestapoon | — | ||
adessive | Gestapolla | — | ||
ablative | Gestapolta | — | ||
allative | Gestapolle | — | ||
essive | Gestapona | — | ||
translative | Gestapoksi | — | ||
abessive | Gestapotta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms[edit]
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”). The predominant pronunciation with /st/ is from reading out the form as one word and thus to some extent a spelling pronunciation.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ɡeˈstaːpo/, [ɡeˈstaː.po], [ɡə-], [ɡɛsˈtaːpo]
- IPA(key): /ɡeˈʃtaːpo/ (fairly rare)
Audio: (file)
Proper noun[edit]
die Gestapo f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Gestapo)
Declension[edit]
Declension of Gestapo [sg-only, feminine]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Geheime Staatspolizei on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Italian[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gestapo f
Anagrams[edit]
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from German Gestapo, a contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gestapo n (indeclinable)
- (historical, Nazism) Alternative spelling of gestapo
Declension[edit]
Indeclinable
or
Declension of Gestapo
Related terms[edit]
adjective
nouns
Further reading[edit]
- Gestapo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from German Gestapo.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gestapo f
- (historical) Gestapo (the secret police of the Nazi party)
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