canapé
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French canapé. Doublet of canopy and conopeum.
PronunciationEdit
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NounEdit
canapé (plural canapés)
- An hors d’oeuvre, a bite-sized open-faced sandwich made of thin bread or toast topped with savory garnish.
- A piece of furniture similar to a couch or settee, an elegant sofa.
- 1908, Upton Sinclair, The Metropolis, Moffat, Yard & Company, New York, page 29:
- Oliver was sitting on the edge of the canapé, swinging one leg over the other; and he stopped abruptly and stared, and then sank back, laughing softly to himself.
- 1908, Upton Sinclair, The Metropolis, Moffat, Yard & Company, New York, page 29:
TranslationsEdit
a bite size slice open-faced sandwich
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elegant sofa
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
NounEdit
canapé m (plural canapés)
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French canapé. Attested since the 18th century.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
canapé m (plural canapés, diminutive canapeetje n)
FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French conopé, conope (later altered in form and meaning based on Medieval Latin canāpēum, alteration of canōpēum (“mosquito net”)), itself from Latin cōnōpēum (“seat with a canopy”), from Ancient Greek κωνωπεῖον (kōnōpeîon), from κώνωψ (kṓnōps, “mosquito”). Cognate with English canopy.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
canapé m (plural canapés)
- sofa
- piece of bread covered with some savory (finger) food
- nibble (small bits of food, e.g. at a party)
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Albanian: kanape
- → Alemannic German: Kanepe
- → Belarusian: кана́па (kanápa)
- → Catalan: canapè
- → Czech: kanape
- → Danish: kanapé, kanape, canapé, canape
- → English: canapé
- → Egyptian Arabic: كنبة (kanaba)
- → Finnish: kanapee
- → German: Kanapee, Canapé
- → Hungarian: kanapé
- → Greek: καναπές (kanapés)
- → Gulf Arabic: قنفة (qanafa)
- → Hijazi Arabic: كنبة (kanaba)
- → Italian: canapè
- → Iraqi Arabic: قنفة (qanafa)
- → Japanese: カナッペ (kanappe)
- → Korean: 카나페 (kanape)
- → Northern Kurdish: qenepe
- → Lithuanian: kanapa
- → Macedonian: канабе (kanabe)
- → Persian: کاناپه (kânâpe)
- → Polish: kanapa
- → Portuguese: canapé
- → Romanian: canapea
- → Russian: канапе́ (kanapé)
- → Spanish: canapé
- → Swedish: kanapé
- → Turkish: kanepe
- → Vilamovian: kanapē
ReferencesEdit
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
- H. H. Mallinckrodt, Latijn Nederlands woordenboek (Aula n° 24), Utrecht-Antwerpen, Spectrum, 1959 [Latin - Dutch dictionary in Dutch]
Further readingEdit
- “canapé” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
AnagramsEdit
PortugueseEdit
NounEdit
canapé m (plural canapés)
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
canapé m (plural canapés)
- canapé (food)
- canapé (furniture)
- snack food