ape
English
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Pronunciation
- enPR: āp, IPA(key): /eɪp/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪp
Etymology 1
From Middle English ape, from Old English apa (“ape, monkey”), from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô (“monkey, ape”), possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”), compare Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”), if the word originally referred to a "water sprite". Traditionally assumed to be an ancient loanword instead, ultimately probably from an unidentified non-Indo-European language of regions in Africa or Asia where monkeys are native. Cognate with Scots aip (“ape”), West Frisian aap (“ape”), Dutch aap (“monkey, ape”), Low German Ape (“ape”), German Affe (“monkey, ape”), Swedish apa (“monkey, ape”), Icelandic api (“ape”).
Noun
ape (plural apes)
- A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
- Any such primate other than a human.
- (derogatory) An uncivilized person.
- One who apes; a foolish imitator.
Hyponyms
- (young or small): apeling, apelet (uncommon)
- (female): apess (rare)
- See also Thesaurus:ape
Derived terms
- ape-baboon (macaque)
- ape-bearer
- apedom
- apefirmative action
- ape-fissure
- Apefrica
- Apefrican
- ape hangers
- apehood
- Apelanta
- ape leader
- apelet
- apelike
- apeling
- apely
- apeman
- ape-person
- aperest
- apesault
- ape shit
- apeshit
- apess
- Barbary ape
- Bili ape
- black ape (Macaca nigra)
- go ape
- God's ape
- great ape
- gutter ape
- gutter ape
- half-ape
- lesser ape
- like a raped ape
- man ape
- naked ape
- North American wood ape
- pavement ape
- rape ape
- red ape
- sacred ape
- sea ape
- semi-ape
- skunk ape
- street ape
- teenaper
- yard ape
Translations
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Verb
ape (third-person singular simple present apes, present participle aping or apeing, simple past and past participle aped)
- (intransitive) To behave like an ape.
- (transitive) To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XXI:
- But there’s this difference; one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver.
- 1961, J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, vol. 92, p. 454,
- It is not conceived as a mere “aping” in externals nor as an enacting in the sense of assuming a foreign role.
- 2010, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 180:
- Every year a paper or a book appears, bemoaning the fate of economics and complaining about its attempts to ape physics.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XXI:
Derived terms
- aper
Translations
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Etymology 2
Clipping of apeshit (“ape-shit (crazy)”).
Adjective
ape (not comparable)
- (slang) Wild; crazy.
- We were ape over the new look.
- He went ape when he heard the bad news.
See also
- monkey
- troop (collective noun)
- Appendix: Animals
Anagrams
- EAP, EPA, PAE, PEA, Pae, Pea, pea
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑː.pə/
Noun
ape
- plural of aap
Aromanian
Etymology
From Latin aqua.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈape]
Audio (file)
Noun
ape f (plural api, definite articulation apa)
- Alternative form of apã
Corsican
Noun
ape
- plural of apa
Finnish
Etymology
appaa + -e
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑpeˣ/, [ˈɑpe̞(ʔ)]
- Rhymes: -ɑpe
- Syllabification(key): a‧pe
Noun
ape
- horse feed
- (colloquial) food
Declension
Inflection of ape (Kotus type 48*B/hame, pp-p gradation) | |||
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nominative | ape | appeet | |
genitive | appeen | appeiden appeitten | |
partitive | apetta | appeita | |
illative | appeeseen | appeisiin appeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | ape | appeet | |
accusative | nom. | ape | appeet |
gen. | appeen | ||
genitive | appeen | appeiden appeitten | |
partitive | apetta | appeita | |
inessive | appeessa | appeissa | |
elative | appeesta | appeista | |
illative | appeeseen | appeisiin appeihin | |
adessive | appeella | appeilla | |
ablative | appeelta | appeilta | |
allative | appeelle | appeille | |
essive | appeena | appeina | |
translative | appeeksi | appeiksi | |
instructive | — | appein | |
abessive | appeetta | appeitta | |
comitative | — | appeineen |
Possessive forms of ape (type hame) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | appeeni | appeemme |
2nd person | appeesi | appeenne |
3rd person | appeensa |
Guaraní
Noun
ape
- back
Interlingua
Etymology
From Latin apis, apem.
Noun
ape (plural apes)
- bee
Related terms
- apicultura
Italian
Etymology
From Latin apem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈa.pe/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ape
- Hyphenation: à‧pe
Noun
ape f (plural api)
- (entomology) bee
- Synonym: pecchia
- (colloquial) honeybee
- Synonyms: ape da miele, ape domestica
Related terms
- ape regina
- apiario
- apicoltura
- apino
- apiterapia
Further reading
ape on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Anagrams
- epa
Latin
Verb
ape
- second-person singular present active imperative of apō
References
- “ape”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Mauritian Creole
Alternative forms
- pe
Etymology
From French après. Compare Haitian Creole ap.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /(a)pe/
Verb
ape (medial form ape)
- (auxiliary) Used to indicate present progressive tense or the continuous tense in general, commonly shortened to "pe" in speech.
Related terms
- ti ape
Mbyá Guaraní
Noun
ape (non-possessed form tape)
- path
- road, street
Middle English
Alternative forms
- eape, aape
Etymology
From Old English apa, from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaːp(ə)/
Noun
ape (plural apes or apen)
- An ape or monkey; a simian creature.
- A deceiver; a conman or charlatan.
- A gullible or foolish person.
Descendants
- English: ape
- Scots: ape, aip
References
- “āpe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.
Neapolitan
Noun
ape
- plural of apa
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aːpe/
Etymology 1
From Old Norse api.
Noun
ape f or m (definite singular apa or apen, indefinite plural aper, definite plural apene)
- ape, monkey
Related terms
- apekatt
- primat
Verb
ape (imperative ap, present tense aper, passive apes, simple past apa or apet or apte, past participle apa or apet or apt, present participle apende)
- to ape, mimic or imitate.
References
- “ape” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse api.
Noun
ape m (definite singular apen, indefinite plural apar, definite plural apane)
ape f (definite singular apa, indefinite plural aper, definite plural apene)
- ape, monkey
Related terms
- apekatt
- primat
Verb
ape (present tense apar, past tense apa, past participle apa, passive infinitive apast, present participle apande, imperative ape/ap)
- e-infinitive form of apa
References
- “ape” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈape]
Noun
ape
- inflection of apă:
- plural
- genitive/dative singular