ape
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Pronunciation
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.
- 1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “William Tyndale other wise Called William Hychins vnto the Reader”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio xix, recto:
- Of vvhat texte thou proveſt hell / vvill a nother prove purgatory / a nother lymbo patrum / and a nother the aſſumpcion of oure ladi: And a nother ſhall prove of the ſame texte that an Ape hath a tayle.
- 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
- apefly
- Apefrica
- Apefrican
- apegirl
- apehanger
- ape hanger
- ape hangers
- apehood
- apekind
- Apelanta
- ape leader
- apelet
- apelike
- apeling
- apely
- apeman
- ape-man
- apeness
- ape-person
- aperest
- apery
- apesault
- ape shit
- apeshit
- apess
- apewoman
- apish
- aquatic ape hypothesis
- aquatic ape theory
- Barbary ape
- Bili ape
- black ape (Macaca nigra)
- go ape
- God's ape
- great ape
- gutter ape
- gutter ape
- half-ape
- hog-ape
- hog-faced ape
- lesser ape
- like a raped ape
- man ape
- naked ape
- North American wood ape
- nose ape
- pavement ape
- rape ape
- red ape
- sacred ape
- sea ape
- semi-ape
- she-ape
- skunk ape
- stoned ape theory
- street ape
- swamp ape
- sysape
- teenaper
- yard ape
Translations
primate of the clade Hominoidea
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any such primate other than a human
derogatory: uncivilized person
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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.
- 1772, [Thomas Bridges], “Something by Way of Preface”, in A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: Printed for S. Hooper, […], →OCLC:
- And well their dignity it ſuits, / To ape the gravity of brutes.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XXI, in Wuthering Heights:
- 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,”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume 92, page 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.
Derived terms
Translations
to behave like an ape
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to imitate
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Etymology 2
Clipping of apeshit (“ape-shit (crazy)”).
Adjective
ape (not comparable)
See also
- monkey
- troop (collective noun)
- Appendix: Animals
Anagrams
Pronunciation
Noun
ape
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ape f (plural api, definite articulation apa)
- Alternative form of apã
Noun
ape
Etymology
Pronunciation
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 | |
| abessive | appeetta | appeitta | |
| instructive | — | appein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Further reading
- “ape”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Pronunciation
Noun
ape
Etymology
From Latin apis, apem.
Noun
ape (plural apes)
Related terms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ape f (plural api)
- (entomology) bee
- Synonym: pecchia
- (colloquial) honeybee
- Synonyms: ape da miele, ape domestica
Related terms
Further reading
ape on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Anagrams
Verb
ape
References
- “ape”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Alternative forms
Etymology
From French après. Compare Haitian Creole ap.
Pronunciation
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
Noun
ape (non-possessed form tape)
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English apa, from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô.
Pronunciation
Noun
- An ape or monkey; a simian creature.
- A deceiver; a conman or charlatan.
- A gullible or foolish person.
Descendants
References
- “āpe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.
Noun
ape
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
ape f or m (definite singular apa or apen, indefinite plural aper, definite plural apene)
Related terms
Etymology 2
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)
References
- “ape” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Etymology 1
Noun
ape m (definite singular apen, indefinite plural apar, definite plural apane)
ape f (definite singular apa, indefinite plural aper, definite plural apene)
Related terms
Etymology 2
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
ape
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin apis, apem. Compare Logudorese abe, Campidanese abi.
Pronunciation
Noun
ape f (plural apes)
Derived terms
- ape mascru
- ape reina
Related terms
- abbutu
- apiana
- apiolu
- apiàriu
- àbia
References
- Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
- Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
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