ape

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Hyponyms 1.4.2 Derived terms 1.4.3 Translations 1.5 Verb 1.5.1 Translations 1.6 See also 1.7 Anagrams 2 Finnish 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Declension 3 Interlingua 3.1 Noun 3.1.1 Related terms 4 Italian 4.1 Noun 4.1.1 Synonyms 4.1.2 Related terms 5 Neapolitan 5.1 Noun 6 Norwegian 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Noun 7 Romanian 7.1 Pronunciation 7.2 Noun 8 Sinhalese 8.1 Pronoun 8.1.1 Derived terms

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English apa, Common Germanic *apan, cf Old Saxon apo, Old Norse api, German Affe, Dutch aap, Swedish apa. Akin to Old Irish apa, Welsh epa, Old Bohemian op, Slovak opitza.

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: āp, IPA: /eɪp/, SAMPA: /eIp

  Rhymes: -eɪp

[edit] Adjective

ape (not comparable)

1. Wild; crazy.

   We were ape over the new look.

   He went ape when he heard the bad news.

[edit] Noun

ape (plural apes)

1. An animal of a class of primates generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
2. (derogatory) An uncivilised person.

[edit] Hyponyms

• See also Wikisaurus:ape

[edit] Derived terms

• apeman
• apeshit
• go ape

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[edit] Verb

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

1. (transitive) To imitate.
   • 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.

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[edit] See also

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

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: aep
• EAP
• EPA
• PAE
• pea

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[edit] Finnish

(index ap)

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ape (stem ap-^*)

1. horse feed
2. (colloquial) food

[edit] Declension

Declension of ape (type hame) singular plural nominative ape appeet genitive appeen appeiden appeitten partitive apetta appeita accusative ape appeen appeet inessive appeessa appeissa elative appeesta appeista illative appeeseen appeisiin appeihin adessive appeella appeilla ablative appeelta appeilta allative appeelle appeille essive appeena appeina translative appeeksi appeiksi instructive – appein abessive appeetta appeitta comitative – appeineen

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[edit] Interlingua

[edit] Noun

ape (plural apes)

1. bee

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• apicultura

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[edit] Italian

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ape f. (plural api)

1. bee
2. (familiar) honeybee

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• (2) ape da miele, ape domestica

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• ape regina
• apiario
• apicoltura
• apino
• apiterapia

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[edit] Neapolitan

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ape

1. Plural form of apa.

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[edit] Norwegian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /aːpe/

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ape m. (definite singular apen; indefinite plural aper; definite plural apene)

1. ape, monkey

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈape]

[edit] Noun

ape f. pl.

1. Plural form of apă. waters

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[edit] Sinhalese

[edit] Pronoun

ape

1. our

[edit] Derived terms

• apeadaviya = "our site"