trappa

trappa

Faroese

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German trappe, from Old Saxon *trappa, from Proto-West Germanic *trappā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɹaʰpːa]

Noun

trappa f (genitive singular trappu, plural trappur)

1. stairs, stairway

Declension

Declension of trappa
f1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	trappa	trappan	trappur	trappurnar
accusative	trappu	trappuna	trappur	trappurnar
dative	trappu	trappuni	trappum	trappunum
genitive	trappu	trappunnar	trappa	trappanna

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: trappas, trappât

Verb

trappa

1. third-person singular past historic of trapper

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Latin

Alternative forms

• trapa

Etymology

Presumably related to Old English træppe (“trap, snare”) (whence English trap), possibly borrowed from Frankish *trappā (“staircase”).

Noun

trappa f (genitive trappae); first declension (Medieval Latin)[1]

1. trap, pit

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	trappa	trappae
Genitive	trappae	trappārum
Dative	trappae	trappīs
Accusative	trappam	trappās
Ablative	trappā	trappīs
Vocative	trappa	trappae

Derived terms

• trappula, trapula

Descendants

• Catalan: trapa
  • → Galician: trapa
• Old French: trape, trappe
  • Middle French: trappe, trape
    • French: trappe
• Occitan: trapa

References

1. Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “trappa”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1040

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• trappen

Noun

trappa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of trapp

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

trappa f

1. definite singular of trapp

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish trapa, trappa, borrowed from Middle Low German trappe, from Old Saxon *trappa, from Proto-West Germanic *trappā.

Pronunciation

• audio

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Noun

trappa c

1. stairs, stairway

Declension

Declension of trappa
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	trappa	trappan	trappor	trapporna
Genitive	trappas	trappans	trappors	trappornas

Descendants

• → Finnish: rappu, trappu
  • → Ingrian: trappu (from earlier trappu)

See also

• tr.
• trapp
• trappa ned
• trappa upp

Further reading

• trappa in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams

• rappat, tappar, tappra