lope
English edit
Etymology edit
Alteration of loup, from Old Norse hlaupa (“to leap, jump”).[1] See leap. Cognate with German laufen (“walk, run”), Danish løbe, Dutch lopen (“walk, run”), Norwegian løpe (“run”). Doublet of leap.
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lope (third-person singular simple present lopes, present participle loping, simple past and past participle loped)
- To travel an easy pace with long strides.
- He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
- 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 5, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 5:
- And as we waited in the car Victor got out and loped over to the house and said a few words to an old lady, […]
- 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
- “And the holidays?” Murgo proposed one evening as they loped down a bridlepath past lovers fondling in the grass. “Fun, are they? High living?”
- (obsolete, intransitive) To jump, leap.
- 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xxxv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book IX, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
- And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver
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- 1621-22, Thomas Middleton et al, The Spanish Gypsy
- he that lopes on the ropes
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to travel an easy pace with long strides
Noun edit
lope (plural lopes)
- An easy pace with long strides.
- 1931, Home Geographic Monthly, volumes 1-2, page 45:
- Hares have larger, leaner bodies, longer legs, and longer ears than the true rabbit. They also run with a lope instead of a hop. It is thought that they developed this more stream-lined body and swifter gait from running on the plains […]
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easy pace with long strides
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References edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “lope”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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lope
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lope
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lope f (plural lopes)
- (slang, derogatory) male homosexual
- (by extension, derogatory) cowardly, characterless man
- 1994, Yasmina Reza, ‘Art’:
- Marc. Si c’est grâce à lui que tu es revenu tendre ton autre joue, tu peux le remercier. Il a fait de toi une lope, mais tu es content, c’est l’essentiel.
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Further reading edit
- “lope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Inari Sami edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Related to Northern Sami lohpi.
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lope
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Even e-stem, p-v gradation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | lope | |||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | love | |||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | lope | loveh | ||||||||||||||||||||
Accusative | love | luuvijd | ||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | love | luvij luuvij | ||||||||||||||||||||
Illative | lopán | luuvijd | ||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | looveest | luuvijn | ||||||||||||||||||||
Comitative | luuvijn | luvijguin | ||||||||||||||||||||
Abessive | lovettáá | luvijttáá | ||||||||||||||||||||
Essive | loppeen | |||||||||||||||||||||
Partitive | loppeed | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Further reading edit
- lope in Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Taarna Valtonen, Miina Seurujärvi and Trond Trosterud (2015–2022) Nettidigisäänih Anarâškiela-suomakielâ-anarâškielâ sänikirje[1], Tromsø: UiT
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
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Alternative forms
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lope
- inflection of lopa (“cutting off”):
Saterland Frisian edit
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Suppletive:
- For forms starting with l-, from Old Frisian hlāpa, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan. Cognates include West Frisian ljeppe and German laufen.
- For forms starting with r-, from Old Frisian renna, from Proto-West Germanic *rinnan. Cognates include West Frisian rinne and German rennen.
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lope
- (intransitive) to run
- (intransitive) to flow
- (intransitive) to sprout
- (intransitive, + mäd) to interact (with)
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Conjugation of lope (irregular)
Grúundfoarme | lope | ||||||
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Infinitive | tou lopen | ||||||
Present tense | Past tense | ||||||
iek | lope | wie | lope | iek | liep, ron | wie | liepen, ronnen |
du | lapst, lopst | jie | lope | du | liepst, ronst | jie | liepen, ronnen |
hie/ju/dät | lapt, lopt | jo | lope | hie/ju/dät | liep, ron | jo | liepen, ronnen |
Present participle | Imperative | Auxiliary | Past participle | ||||
lopend | Singular | loop | weze | lepen, ronnen | |||
Plural | lopet |