scape

See also: -scape

English

Etymology 1

From Latin scāpus, from (Doric) Ancient Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos). Doublet of native English shaft.

Noun

scape (plural scapes)

1. (botany) A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root.
2. The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
3. The basal part of the ovipositor of an insect, more specifically known as the oviscape.
4. (architecture) The shaft of a column.
5. (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.

Translations

leafless stalk

• Czech: stvol (cs) m
• Esperanto: skapo
• Finnish: vana (fi)

• Maori: kōrari
• Polish: głąbik m
• Romanian: scap (ro) m

basal segment of antenna

• Finnish: varsi (fi)

Etymology 2

Formed by aphesis from escape.

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Verb

scape (third-person singular simple present scapes, present participle scaping, simple past and past participle scaped)

1. (archaic) to escape
   • c. 1600, John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal, in Poems (1633)

     No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace

     As I have seen in one autumnal face.

     Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape,

     This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape.

Noun

scape (plural scapes)

1. (archaic) escape
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:

     I spake of most disastrous chances, […] Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.

2. (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.

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3. (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
   • 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], OCLC 868004604, book:

     Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.

4. (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.

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Etymology 3

Probably imitative.

Noun

scape (plural scapes)

1. The cry of the snipe when flushed.
2. The snipe itself.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for scape in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• EAPCs, EPACs, Space, a-spec, aspec, capes, paces, space

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Latin

Noun

scāpe

1. vocative singular of scāpus

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈskape]

Verb

scape

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of scăpa
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of scăpa