sapeca

English edit

Noun edit

sapeca (plural sapecas)

Alternative form of sapek (“Vietnamese coin”)

Macanese edit

Etymology edit

Apparently Malay sa (“one”) +‎ Malay paku (“thread of one hundred pichi coins”). Originally described a round copper coin (hence sense 2), alloyed with tin or lead, with a square hole in the centre, formerly used in China. Term formerly used jocularly to imitate Macanese,^[1] however is now the most common term to refer to money. Compare French sapèque, from the same Malay origin.

Noun edit

sapeca

money^[2]
Iou nôm têm sapeca
I don't have money
coin

Derived terms edit

sapeca fêmea

Related terms edit

pataca (“currency of Macau”)

References edit

^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “sapeca”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 529
^ https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

Portuguese edit

Pronunciation edit

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈpɛ.kɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈpɛ.ka/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɐˈpɛ.kɐ/

Hyphenation: sa‧pe‧ca

Etymology 1 edit

Adjective edit

sapeca m or f (plural sapecas)

mischievous (causing mischief)

Noun edit

sapeca m or f by sense (plural sapecas)

a mischievous child

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

sapeca

inflection of sapecar:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

[1] Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “sapeca”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 529

[2] ttps://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

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