ape
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
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 edit
- (young or small): apeling, apelet (uncommon)
- (female): apess (rare)
- See also Thesaurus:ape
Derived terms edit
- ape-baboon (macaque)
- ape-bearer
- apedom
- apefirmative action
- ape-fissure
- Apefrica
- Apefrican
- ape hanger
- ape hangers
- apehood
- Apelanta
- ape leader
- apelet
- apelike
- apeling
- apely
- ape-man
- apeman
- ape-person
- aperest
- apesault
- ape shit
- apeshit
- apess
- 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
- 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
- skunk ape
- stoned ape theory
- street ape
- swamp ape
- teenaper
- yard ape
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Verb edit
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, chapter XXI, in Wuthering Heights[1]:
- 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.
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Etymology 2 edit
Clipping of apeshit (“ape-shit (crazy)”).
Adjective edit
ape (not comparable)
See also edit
- monkey
- troop (collective noun)
- Appendix: Animals
Anagrams edit
Afrikaans edit
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ape
Aromanian edit
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Pronunciation edit
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ape f (plural api, definite articulation apa)
- Alternative form of apã
Corsican edit
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ape
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
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ape
- horse feed
- (colloquial) food
Declension edit
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. |
Further reading edit
- “ape”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Guaraní edit
Noun edit
ape
Interlingua edit
Etymology edit
From Latin apis, apem.
Noun edit
ape (plural apes)
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Italian edit
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Noun edit
ape f (plural api)
- (entomology) bee
- Synonym: pecchia
- (colloquial) honeybee
- Synonyms: ape da miele, ape domestica
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- ape on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Verb edit
ape
References edit
- “ape”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Mauritian Creole edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From French après. Compare Haitian Creole ap.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ape (medial form ape)
- (auxiliary) Used to indicate present progressive tense or the continuous tense in general, commonly shortened to "pe" in speech.
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Mbyá Guaraní edit
Noun edit
ape (non-possessed form tape)
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old English apa, from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- An ape or monkey; a simian creature.
- A deceiver; a conman or charlatan.
- A gullible or foolish person.
Descendants edit
References edit
- “āpe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.
Neapolitan edit
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ape
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
ape f or m (definite singular apa or apen, indefinite plural aper, definite plural apene)
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Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
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 edit
- “ape” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
ape m (definite singular apen, indefinite plural apar, definite plural apane)
ape f (definite singular apa, indefinite plural aper, definite plural apene)
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Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
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 edit
- “ape” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian edit
Pronunciation edit
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ape
Sardinian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin apis, apem. Compare Logudorese abe, Campidanese abi.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ape f (plural apes)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
- Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes