nep

See also nép

English

Etymology

Shortened from nepte.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nɛp/

Noun

nep (plural neps)

1. Catmint, catnip; Nepeta cataria.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio 2007, p. 201:

     Nep is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof.

Anagrams

• pen
• PNe

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Dutch

Etymology

From German Nepp.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛp

Noun

nep m (uncountable)

1. imitation, fake

Adjective

nep (comparative nepper, superlative nepst)

1. fake, not real
2. artificial, not natural

Declension

This word is used more often in compounds than as an attributive adjective. The inflected form neppe is rarely used, and prefixing with nep- is more common. The predicative and partitive forms are used normally.

Declension of nep

		positive	comparative	superlative
				attributive	predicative/adverbial
predicative/adverbial		nep	nepper
neuter singular	indefinite	nep	nepper
	definite	neppe	neppere	nepste	nepst, nepste
common singular		neppe	neppere	nepste	nepste
plural		neppe	neppere	nepste	nepste
partitive		neps	neppers

Synonyms

• namaak

Antonyms

• authentiek
• echt
• natuurlijk

Anagrams

• pen