escapade

English

WOTD – 23 March 2012    

Etymology

From French escapade (“the act of escaping; a trick”), from Old Spanish escapada, from escapar (“to escape”), from Vulgar Latin *excappō (“to escape”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĕs'kə-pād', IPA: /ˈɛskəˌpeɪd/, X-SAMPA: /"Esk@%peId/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

escapade (plural escapades)

1. A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.

Translations

daring or adventurous act; undertaking which goes against convention

• Bulgarian: лудория (bg) (ludorija) f, приключение (bg) (priključenie) n
• Dutch: escapade (nl) f
• Finnish: tempaus (fi)
• French: escapade (fr) f
• German: Eskapade (de) f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eskapade (nb) m

  Nynorsk: eskapade (nn) m

• Russian: эскапада (ru) (eskapada) f

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Galician

Verb

escapade

1. second-person plural imperative of escapar