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

Weak:

	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