Wiktionary

rope

See also: ropě and ropę

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English rop, rope, from Old English rāp (“rope, cord, cable”), from Proto-West Germanic *raip, from Proto-Germanic *raipaz, *raipą (“rope, cord, band, ringlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roypnós (“strap, band, rope”), from *h₁reyp- (“to peel off, tear; border, edge, strip”).

Cognates
Cognate with Scots rape, raip (“rope”), Saterland Frisian Roop (“rope”), West Frisian reap (“rope, cord”), Dutch roop, reep (“rope, cord, ring, strip, bar”), German Low German Reep (“rope”), Swedish rep (“rope”), Icelandic reipi (“rope”), Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”).

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

rope (countable and uncountable, plural ropes)

 
Length of rope.
  1. (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
    Synonyms: twine, line, cord; see also Thesaurus:string
    Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.
  2. (countable) An individual length of such material.
    The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.
  3. A cohesive strand of something.
    The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.
    • 2003, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River‎[1], →ISBN, page 138:
      Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.
    1. (slang, vulgar) A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
  4. (dated) A continuous stream.
  5. (baseball) A hard line drive.
    He hit a rope past third and into the corner.
  6. (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
  7. (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
  8. (military, uncountable) A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
  9. (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
    Synonyms: rajju, infinitude
    • 2001, “Review of Metaphysical Teaching”, in Nagendra Kr. Singh, editor, Encyclopaedia of Jainism‎[2], →ISBN, page 7522:
      The central strip of the loka, the Middle World, represents its smallest area, being only one rope wide and one hundred thousand leagues high, […]
  10. (jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
  11. (nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
  12. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
  13. (slang) Rohypnol.
  14. (slang, usually in the plural) Semen being ejaculated.
  15. (with "the") Death by hanging.
    The murderer was sentenced to the rope.
Derived termsEdit
terms derived from rope (noun)
DescendantsEdit
  • → Irish: rópa
  • Tok Pisin: rop
TranslationsEdit
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Further readingEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English ropen, rope (“to form ropes”), from rop (“rope”); see above.

VerbEdit

rope (third-person singular simple present ropes, present participle roping, simple past and past participle roped)

  1. (transitive) To tie (something) with rope.
    The robber roped the victims.
  2. (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
    The cowboy roped the calf.
  3. (intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
    • 1984, G. F. Dutton, The Ridiculous Mountains (page 153)
      We roped down to the platform selected for the bivouac; set up our bags and brewed a reasonable meal.
  4. (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
  5. (incel slang, intransitive) To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
    • 2019, anonymous, quoted in Julia Rose DeCook, "Curating the Future: The Sustainability Practices of Online Hate Groups", dissertation submitted to Michigan State University, page 153:
      In figure 71, the poster Brahcel notes that he “almost roped” because he could not find the community […]
    • 2020, Joshua A. Segalewitz, "'You Don't Understand... It's Not About Virginity': Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, and Violent Masculinity on an Incel Forum Board", thesis submitted to the University of Dayton, page 36:
      ToxicAlcoholSyndrome explains that his, “dreams are all really depressing and vivid, so… I’m constantly in a bad mood and know in the back of my brain, I need to rope.”
    • 2021, Laura Bates, From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All, unnumbered page:
      Another man wrote that the only reason he hasn't “roped” (incel terminology for death by suicide) is he didn't want to ruin his family's Christmas.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rope.
    My life is a mess; I might as well rope.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
terms derived from rope (verb)
TranslationsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

From Middle English rop (“gut, intestine”), from Old English rop, ropp; compare Middle Dutch rop, roppe (“fish guts”).

The modern pronunciation results from phonological assimilation to Etymology 1.

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

rope (plural ropes)

  1. (in the plural) The small intestines.
    the ropes of birds

AnagramsEdit

FinnishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈrope/, [ˈro̞pe̞]
  • Rhymes: -ope
  • Syllabification(key): ro‧pe

NounEdit

rope

  1. (gaming, slang) Clipping of roolipeli (“RPG, role-playing game”).

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of rope (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative rope ropet
genitive ropen ropejen
partitive ropea ropeja
illative ropeen ropeihin
singular plural
nominative rope ropet
accusative nom. rope ropet
gen. ropen
genitive ropen ropejen
partitive ropea ropeja
inessive ropessa ropeissa
elative ropesta ropeista
illative ropeen ropeihin
adessive ropella ropeilla
ablative ropelta ropeilta
allative ropelle ropeille
essive ropena ropeina
translative ropeksi ropeiksi
instructive — ropein
abessive ropetta ropeitta
comitative — ropeineen
Possessive forms of rope (type valo)
possessor singular plural
1st person ropeni ropemme
2nd person ropesi ropenne
3rd person ropensa

Derived termsEdit

AnagramsEdit

Middle EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

rope

  1. Alternative form of rop (“rope”)

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

rope

  1. Alternative form of ropen (“to form ropes”)

Etymology 3Edit

VerbEdit

rope

  1. Alternative form of ropen (“to cry out”)

Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse hrópa, from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną.

VerbEdit

rope (imperative rop, present tense roper, simple past ropte, past participle ropt)

  1. to shout

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

VerbEdit

rope (imperative rop, present tense ropar or roper, simple past ropa or ropte, past participle ropa or ropt, present participle ropande)

  1. Alternative form of ropa
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