aper
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]aper (plural apers)
- Someone who apes something
- 1908, Rupert Sargent Holland, Builders of United Italy, page 175:
- Valerio ridiculed the proposal to his friends and called Cavour an aper of English customs.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]someone who apes something — see imitator
Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German āber, from Old High German ābar (“sunny, warm, dry”), from ā- (“from, away”, prefix) + bar (“bare”), likely via a defunct verb *ābarēn, *ābarōn (“to lay bare, expose”). Alternatively, from a verb *āberan (“to not bear, not carry”). Sense likely influenced by unrelated Latin aprīcus due to superficial similarity of form and meaning.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]aper (strong nominative masculine singular aperer, comparative aperer or aprer, superlative am apersten)
- (Bavaria, Austria, Switzerland) snowless
- Synonym: (general) schneefrei
Declension
[edit]Positive forms of aper
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist aper | sie ist aper | es ist aper | sie sind aper | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | aperer | apere | aperes | apere |
genitive | aperen | aperer | aperen | aperer | |
dative | aperem | aperer | aperem | aperen | |
accusative | aperen | apere | aperes | apere | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der apere | die apere | das apere | die aperen |
genitive | des aperen | der aperen | des aperen | der aperen | |
dative | dem aperen | der aperen | dem aperen | den aperen | |
accusative | den aperen | die apere | das apere | die aperen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein aperer | eine apere | ein aperes | (keine) aperen |
genitive | eines aperen | einer aperen | eines aperen | (keiner) aperen | |
dative | einem aperen | einer aperen | einem aperen | (keinen) aperen | |
accusative | einen aperen | eine apere | ein aperes | (keine) aperen |
Comparative forms of aper
Superlative forms of aper
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist am apersten | sie ist am apersten | es ist am apersten | sie sind am apersten | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | aperster | aperste | aperstes | aperste |
genitive | apersten | aperster | apersten | aperster | |
dative | aperstem | aperster | aperstem | apersten | |
accusative | apersten | aperste | aperstes | aperste | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der aperste | die aperste | das aperste | die apersten |
genitive | des apersten | der apersten | des apersten | der apersten | |
dative | dem apersten | der apersten | dem apersten | den apersten | |
accusative | den apersten | die aperste | das aperste | die apersten | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein aperster | eine aperste | ein aperstes | (keine) apersten |
genitive | eines apersten | einer apersten | eines apersten | (keiner) apersten | |
dative | einem apersten | einer apersten | einem apersten | (keinen) apersten | |
accusative | einen apersten | eine aperste | ein aperstes | (keine) apersten |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *apros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-r-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *eburaz, Proto-Slavic *veprь.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈa.per/, [ˈäpɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.per/, [ˈäːper]
Noun
[edit]aper m (genitive aprī); second declension
- a wild boar
- (figuratively) a standard of the Roman legions
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | aper | aprī |
genitive | aprī | aprōrum |
dative | aprō | aprīs |
accusative | aprum | aprōs |
ablative | aprō | aprīs |
vocative | aper | aprī |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “aper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aper”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aper in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “aper”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “aper”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]aper m or f
- indefinite plural of ape
Verb
[edit]aper
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]aper m or f
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