sapé

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sape"

French

Participle

sapé (feminine sapée, masculine plural sapés, feminine plural sapées)

1. past participle of saper

Neapolitan

Verb

sapé

1. Alternative spelling of sapere (“to know”)

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈpɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: sa‧pé

Etymology 1

Noun

sapé (unpossessable)

1. satintail (any grass in the genus Imperata)

Descendants

• → Portuguese: sapé, sapê

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

sapé

1. R2 of pé

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “sapé”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 437, column 2

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈpe/

Verb

sapé

1. to hoe

Portuguese

sapé (Imperata brasiliensis)

Alternative forms

• sapê

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi sapé.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈpɛ/

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: sa‧pé

Noun

sapé m (plural sapés)

1. (Brazil) satintail (any grass in the genus Imperata)
   1. (strictly) Brazilian satintail (Imperata brasiliensis)
2. (Brazil, colloquial) thatch (straw used to cover roofs)

   Synonyms: palha, colmo

Further reading

• “sapé” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “sapé” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “sapé” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “sapé” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.