tapir
EnglishEdit
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A 19th-century watercolour of a Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus), from the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings at the National Museum of Singapore
A tapir (Tapirus indicus)
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpə(ɹ)/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪpə(r)
- Homophone: taper
NounEdit
tapir (plural tapirs)
- Any one the species of large odd-toed ungulates of the taxonomic family Tapiridae with a long prehensile upper lip, of which all four surviving species are in genus Tapirus.
SynonymsEdit
- (Guyana) bush cow, (Belize) mountain cow
HyponymsEdit
- Baird's tapir, Tapirus bairdii
- Brazilian tapir, Tapirus terrestris
- Malayan tapir, Tapirus indicus
- mountain tapir, Tapirus pinchaque
- Tapirus californicus †
- Tapirus copei †
- Tapirus merriami †
- Tapirus polkensis †
- Tapirus veroensis †
- For others see
tapir on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
TranslationsEdit
large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae
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Further readingEdit
- tapir on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Tapirus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Tapirus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Spanish tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tapir m (plural tapirs, diminutive tapirtje n)
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle French tapir, from Old French tapir, borrowed from Frankish *tappijan (“to close, shut in, lock up”), from Frankish tappō, from Proto-Germanic *tappô.
VerbEdit
tapir
ConjugationEdit
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of tapir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tapir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tapissant /ta.pi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tapi /ta.pi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tapis /ta.pi/ |
tapis /ta.pi/ |
tapit /ta.pi/ |
tapissons /ta.pi.sɔ̃/ |
tapissez /ta.pi.se/ |
tapissent /ta.pis/ |
| imperfect | tapissais /ta.pi.sɛ/ |
tapissais /ta.pi.sɛ/ |
tapissait /ta.pi.sɛ/ |
tapissions /ta.pi.sjɔ̃/ |
tapissiez /ta.pi.sje/ |
tapissaient /ta.pi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tapis /ta.pi/ |
tapis /ta.pi/ |
tapit /ta.pi/ |
tapîmes /ta.pim/ |
tapîtes /ta.pit/ |
tapirent /ta.piʁ/ | |
| future | tapirai /ta.pi.ʁe/ |
tapiras /ta.pi.ʁa/ |
tapira /ta.pi.ʁa/ |
tapirons /ta.pi.ʁɔ̃/ |
tapirez /ta.pi.ʁe/ |
tapiront /ta.pi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tapirais /ta.pi.ʁɛ/ |
tapirais /ta.pi.ʁɛ/ |
tapirait /ta.pi.ʁɛ/ |
tapirions /ta.pi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tapiriez /ta.pi.ʁje/ |
tapiraient /ta.pi.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tapisse /ta.pis/ |
tapisses /ta.pis/ |
tapisse /ta.pis/ |
tapissions /ta.pi.sjɔ̃/ |
tapissiez /ta.pi.sje/ |
tapissent /ta.pis/ |
| imperfect2 | tapisse /ta.pis/ |
tapisses /ta.pis/ |
tapît /ta.pi/ |
tapissions /ta.pi.sjɔ̃/ |
tapissiez /ta.pi.sje/ |
tapissent /ta.pis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tapis /ta.pi/ |
— | tapissons /ta.pi.sɔ̃/ |
tapissez /ta.pi.se/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
tapir m (plural tapirs)
AnagramsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “tapir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
PolishEdit
PortugueseEdit
tapir (Tapirus indicus)
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Old Tupi tapi'ira.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tapir m (plural tapires)
SynonymsEdit
- (tapir): anta
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: ta‧pir
NounEdit
tapir m (plural tapires)
SynonymsEdit
- (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Southern Mexico, Venezuela) danta
- (Bolivia, Northern Argentina) anta
- (Ecuador) vaca de monte
- (Honduras, Nicaragua) danto
- (Mexico) ante
- (Panama, Colombian Pacific Coast) macho de monte
- (Paraguay) mboreví
- (Peru) sachavaca
- (Southern Mexico) anteburro