ape

• enPR: āp, IPA^(key): /eɪp/

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• Rhymes: -eɪp

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”).

ape (plural apes)

1. 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.

2. Any such primate other than a human.
3. (derogatory) An uncivilized person.
4. One who apes; a foolish imitator.

• (young or small): apeling, apelet (uncommon)
• (female): apess (rare)
• See also Thesaurus:ape

ape (third-person singular simple present apes, present participle aping or apeing, simple past and past participle aped)

1. (intransitive) To behave like an ape.
2. (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.

• aper

Clipping of apeshit (“ape-shit (crazy)”).

ape (not comparable)

1. (slang) Wild; crazy.

   We were ape over the new look.

   He went ape when he heard the bad news.

• monkey
• troop (collective noun)
• Appendix: Animals

• EAP, EPA, PAE, PEA, Pae, Pea, pea

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.pə/

ape

1. plural of aap

From Latin aqua.

• IPA^(key): [ˈape]

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ape f (plural api, definite articulation apa)

1. Alternative form of apã

ape

1. plural of apa

appaa +‎ -e

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑpeˣ/, [ˈɑ̝pe̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑpe
• Syllabification^(key): a‧pe

ape

1. horse feed
2. (colloquial) food

• “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

ape

1. back

From Latin apis, apem.

ape (plural apes)

1. bee

• apicultura

From Latin apem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.pe/

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• Rhymes: -ape
• Hyphenation: à‧pe

ape f (plural api)

1. (entomology) bee

   Synonym: pecchia

2. (colloquial) honeybee

   Synonyms: ape da miele, ape domestica

• ape on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

• epa

ape

1. second-person singular present active imperative of apō

• “ape”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• pe

From French après. Compare Haitian Creole ap.

• IPA^(key): /(a)pe/

ape (medial form ape)

1. (auxiliary) Used to indicate present progressive tense or the continuous tense in general, commonly shortened to "pe" in speech.

• ti ape

ape (non-possessed form tape)

1. path
2. road, street

• eape, aape

From Old English apa, from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːp(ə)/

ape (plural apes or apen)

1. An ape or monkey; a simian creature.
2. A deceiver; a conman or charlatan.
3. A gullible or foolish person.

• English: ape
• Scots: ape, aip

• “āpe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.

ape

1. plural of apa

• IPA^(key): /aːpe/

From Old Norse api.

ape f or m (definite singular apa or apen, indefinite plural aper, definite plural apene)

1. ape, monkey

• apekatt
• primat

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)

1. to ape, mimic or imitate.

• “ape” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse api.

ape m (definite singular apen, indefinite plural apar, definite plural apane)

ape f (definite singular apa, indefinite plural aper, definite plural apene)

1. ape, monkey

• apekatt
• primat

ape (present tense apar, past tense apa, past participle apa, passive infinitive apast, present participle apande, imperative ape/ap)

1. e-infinitive form of apa

• “ape” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): [ˈape]

ape

1. inflection of apă:
   1. plural
   2. genitive/dative singular

• abe

From Latin apis, apem. Compare Logudorese abe, Campidanese abi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈape/

ape f (plural apes)

1. (Nuorese) bee

• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes