dape

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dapem (“sacrificial feast”), from Proto-Italic *daps, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂ps, derived from the root *deh₂p- (“to sacrifice; to lose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.pe/
• Rhymes: -ape
• Hyphenation: dà‧pe

Noun

dape f (plural dapi or invariable) (literary, obsolete)

1. meal, banquet, feast

   Synonym: banchetto

2. (figurative) aliment, nourishment

   Synonyms: nutrimento, vivanda

   • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIII”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎^[1], lines 40–46; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Come foco di nube si diserra
     per dilatarsi sì che non vi cape,
     e fuor di sua natura in giù s’atterra,
     la mente mia così, tra quelle dape
     fatta più grande, di sé stessa uscìo,
     e che si fesse rimembrar non sape.

     As fire from out a cloud unlocks itself, dilating so it finds not room therein, and down, against its nature, falls to earth, so did my mind, among those aliments becoming larger, issue from itself, and that which it became cannot remember.

Further reading

• dape in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• peda

Latin

Noun

dape

1. ablative singular of daps

Sranan Tongo

Adverb

dape

1. Alternative form of drape