sape

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sape"

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sap/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French sappe, from Latin sappa. Compare Italian zappa, Friulian sape, Romanian sapă.

Noun

sape f (plural sapes)

1. (regional, agriculture) a small scythe
2. (regional, agriculture) hoe, mattock

Related terms

• saper

See also

• faux
• houe, hoyau

Etymology 2

From saper (“to dress”).

Noun

sape f (plural sapes)

1. (colloquial) fashion, style
2. (in the plural) outfit

Etymology 3

Inflected forms.

Verb

sape

1. inflection of saper:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “sape”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• pesa

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin sappa.

Noun

sape f (plural sapis)

1. hoe

Related terms

• sapâ

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.pe/

Verb

sape

1. present of saper
2. imperative of saper

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.pe/
• Rhymes: -ape
• Hyphenation: sà‧pe

Verb

sape

1. (archaic) third-person singular present indicative of sapere

Synonyms

• sa

Anagrams

• Pesa, aspe, pesa

Latin

Verb

sape

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sapiō

Middle English

Noun

sape

1. Alternative form of sap

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *saipā, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑː.pe/

Noun

sāpe f

1. soap
   • before 1150, Monasteriales Indicia‎^[1] (monastic sign language guide):

     Ðonne þu sapan abban wille þonne gnid þu þinne handa to gædere

     When you want soap, then rub your hands together.

Declension

Declension of sāpe (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	sāpe	sāpan
accusative	sāpan	sāpan
genitive	sāpan	sāpena
dative	sāpan	sāpum

Descendants

• Middle English: sope, sape
  • English: soap (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: saip, sape
  • → Middle Irish: sóp
  • → Old Norse: sápa
    • Icelandic: sápa
    • Faroese: sápa
    • Norwegian: såpa, såpe
      • → Danish: såpe
        • Norwegian Bokmål: såpe
    • Old Swedish: sāpa
      • Swedish: såpa
        • → Finnish: suopa, soopa

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀲𑀧𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• सपे (Devanagari script)
• সপে (Bengali script)
• සපෙ (Sinhalese script)
• သပေ (Burmese script)
• สเป or สะเป (Thai script)
• ᩈᨷᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ສເປ or ສະເປ (Lao script)
• សបេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄥𑄛𑄬 (Chakma script)

Verb

sape

1. optative active singular of sapati (“to swear”)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsape]

Verb

sape

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of săpa