daps

English

Noun

daps

1. plural of dap

Verb

daps

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dap

Anagrams

• APDS, ASPD, PDAs, SPAD, SaPD, SpAd, pads, spad

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *daps, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂ps (“portion, sacrificial meal”).

Cognate with Ancient Greek δαπάνη (dapánē, “expenditure”), δάπτω (dáptō, “I devour”), Old Armenian տաւն (tawn, “feast”), Old Norse tafn (“sacrifice”). Akin to damnum (“loss, expense”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /daps/, [d̪äps̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /daps/, [d̪äps]

Noun

daps f (genitive dapis); third declension

1. A sacrificial or solemn feast, religious banquet.
2. A meal, banquet, feast.

   Synonyms: convīvium, epulum, epulae, fēsta, dominium, festīvitās, cōmissātiō

3. (Medieval Latin) Fortune, wealth.

Declension

Note that the nominative is sometimes written as dapis and that the genitive plural and the dative singular do not occur. Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	daps	dapēs
Genitive	dapis	dapum
Dative	dapī	dapibus
Accusative	dapem	dapēs
Ablative	dape	dapibus
Vocative	daps	dapēs

Related terms

• dapsilē
• dapsālis
• dapsilis
• dapsiliter
• dapaticus
• dapaticē
• dapālis

Descendants

• English: dapifer
• Portuguese: cardápio

References

• “daps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “daps”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dapes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• daps in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “daps”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 301
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 161