Ape in Scrabble Dictionary

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3 letters words from 'ape'

APE 5

PEA 5

2 letters words from 'ape'

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PA 4	PE 4

Definitions and meaning of ape

ape

Pronunciation

• enPR: āp, IPA^(key): /eɪp/
• Rhymes: -eɪp

Etymology 1

From Middle English ape, from Old English apa (“ape, monkey”), from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô (“monkey, ape”), possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”), compare Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”), if the word originally referred to a "water sprite". Traditionally assumed to be an ancient loanword instead, ultimately probably from an unidentified non-Indo-European language of regions in Africa or Asia where monkeys are native. Cognate with Scots aip (“ape”), West Frisian aap (“ape”), Dutch aap (“monkey, ape”), Low German Ape (“ape”), German Affe (“monkey, ape”), Swedish apa (“monkey, ape”), Icelandic api (“ape”).

Noun

ape (plural apes)

1. A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
2. Any such primate other than a human.
3. (derogatory) An uncivilised person.
4. One who apes; a foolish imitator.

Hyponyms

• (young or small): apeling, apelet (uncommon)
• (female): apess (rare)
• See also Thesaurus:ape

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

ape (third-person singular simple present apes, present participle aping or apeing, simple past and past participle aped)

1. (intransitive) To behave like an ape.
2. (transitive) To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.
   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XXI:

     But there’s this difference; one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver.

   • 1961, J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, vol. 92, p. 454,

     It is not conceived as a mere “aping” in externals nor as an enacting in the sense of assuming a foreign role.

Derived terms

• aper

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of apeshit (“ape-shit (crazy)”).

Adjective

ape (not comparable)

1. (slang) Wild; crazy.

   We were ape over the new look.

   He went ape when he heard the bad news.

See also

• monkey
• troop (collective noun)
• Appendix: Animals

Anagrams

• EAP, EPA, PAE, PEA, Pae, Pea, pea

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Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin aqua

Noun

ape f (plural api, definite articulation apa)

1. Alternative form of apã

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.pə/

Noun

ape

1. plural of aap

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Corsican

Noun

ape

1. plural of apa

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Finnish

(index ap)

Etymology

appaa +‎ -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑpeˣ/, [ˈɑpe̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑpe
• Syllabification: a‧pe

Noun

ape

1. horse feed
2. (colloquial) food

Declension

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Interlingua

Noun

ape (plural apes)

1. bee

Related terms

• apicultura

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin apis, apem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.pe/
• Rhymes: -ape

Noun

ape f (plural api)

1. (entomology) bee

   Synonym: pecchia

2. (colloquial) honeybee

   Synonyms: ape da miele, ape domestica

Related terms

Further reading

• ape on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

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Latin

Verb

ape

1. second-person singular present active imperative of apō

References

• ape in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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Mauritian Creole

Alternative forms

• pe

Etymology

From French après. Compare Haitian Creole ap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(a)pe/

Verb

ape (medial form ape)

1. (auxiliary) Used to indicate present progressive tense or the continuous tense in general, commonly shortened to "pe" in speech.

Related terms

• ti ape

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• eape, aape

Etymology

From Old English apa, from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːp(ə)/

Noun

ape (plural apes or apen)

1. An ape or monkey; a simian creature.
2. A deceiver; a conman or charlatan.
3. A gullible or foolish person.

Descendants

• English: ape
• Scots: ape, aip

References

• “āpe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.

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Neapolitan

Noun

ape

1. plural of apa

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aːpe/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse api.

Noun

ape f or m (definite singular apa or apen, indefinite plural aper, definite plural apene)

1. ape, monkey

Related terms

• apekatt
• primat

Etymology 2

Verb

ape (imperative ap, present tense aper, passive apes, simple past apa or apet or apte, past participle apa or apet or apt, present participle apende)

1. to ape, mimic or imitate.

References

• “ape” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse api.

Noun

ape m (definite singular apen, indefinite plural apar, definite plural apane)

ape f (definite singular apa, indefinite plural aper, definite plural apene)

1. ape, monkey

Related terms

• apekatt
• primat

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• apa

Verb

ape (present tense apar or aper, past tense apa or apte, past participle apa or apt, passive infinitive apast, present participle apande, imperative ap)

1. to ape, mimic or imitate.

References

• “ape” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈape]

Noun

ape f pl

1. plural of apă

Source: wiktionary.org

• to mimic.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)