Gestapo
See also: gestapo
English edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from German Gestapo.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
the Gestapo
- (historical, Nazism) The secret police of Nazi Germany.
- 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, page 227:
- Fortunately this was Spain and not Germany. The Spanish secret police had some of the spirit of the Gestapo, but not much of its competence.
- (informal, derogatory, by extension) Any militant oppressive force or group.
- 2009, Ian Dunbar, More Than a Puff of Smoke, page 230:
- Men were frog-marched by the feminist Gestapo into accepting an alien 'politically correct' agenda.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
the secret police of Nazi Germany
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Further reading edit
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Finnish edit
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Proper noun edit
Gestapo
- Gestapo (Nazi secret police)
Declension edit
Inflection of Gestapo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Gestapo | — | ||
genitive | Gestapon | — | ||
partitive | Gestapoa | — | ||
illative | Gestapoon | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Gestapo | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Gestapo | — | |
gen. | Gestapon | |||
genitive | Gestapon | — | ||
partitive | Gestapoa | — | ||
inessive | Gestapossa | — | ||
elative | Gestaposta | — | ||
illative | Gestapoon | — | ||
adessive | Gestapolla | — | ||
ablative | Gestapolta | — | ||
allative | Gestapolle | — | ||
essive | Gestapona | — | ||
translative | Gestapoksi | — | ||
abessive | Gestapotta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms edit
German edit
Etymology edit
Contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”). The predominant pronunciation with /st/ is from reading out the form as one word and thus to some extent a spelling pronunciation.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ɡeˈstaːpo/, [ɡeˈstaː.po], [ɡə-], [ɡɛsˈtaːpo]
- IPA(key): /ɡeˈʃtaːpo/ (fairly rare)
audio (file)
Proper noun edit
die Gestapo f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Gestapo)
Declension edit
Declension of Gestapo [sg-only, feminine]
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- Geheime Staatspolizei on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Italian edit
Proper noun edit
Gestapo f
Anagrams edit
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Gestapo, a contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Gestapo n (indeclinable)
- (historical, Nazism) Alternative spelling of gestapo
Declension edit
Indeclinable
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Declension of Gestapo
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adjective
nouns
Further reading edit
- Gestapo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from German Gestapo.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Gestapo f
- (historical) Gestapo (the secret police of the Nazi party)