opake

English

Etymology

From Middle English opake, from Latin opacus (“shaded, shady, dark”) (of unknown origin), later reinforced from Middle French opaque.

Adjective

opake (comparative more opake, superlative most opake)

1. Alternative form of opaque
   • 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 55:

     Gestures […] are not of general use, since darkness or the interposition of an opake medium renders them useless.

   • 1969, Douglas McKie, (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], Digitized edition (Science), Harvard Univ. Press, published 2007, page 187:

     The artificial marble made here is made in the common way with Gypsum Lime and other materials and the artist who is an Italian calls himself a Scagliolist (Scagliola being their name for Gypsum or works in Gypsum) he imitates some of the opake and coloured marbles […]

Dutch

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Adjective

opake

1. inflection of opaak:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

German

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Adjective

opake

1. inflection of opak:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Middle English

Etymology

From Latin opacus (“shaded, shady, dark”) (of unknown origin), later reinforced from Middle French opaque.

Adjective

opake (comparative opaker, superlative opakest)

1. dark, shaded, unlit
   • c 1440, Palladius

     Summe haue hem grene ypuld, and stoon & all They honge hem vp in place opake and drie.

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Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

opake

1. inflection of opak:
   1. masculine accusative plural
   2. feminine genitive singular
   3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural