agrafe

See also: Agrafe and agrafé

English

Etymology

From French agrafe.

Noun

agrafe (plural agrafes)

1. A hook or fastener on clothing.
   • 1867, Harper's Bazaar, volume 1, page 384:

     The belt was of gold, confined by a diamond agrafe.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡʁaf/

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• Rhymes: -af

Noun

agrafe f (plural agrafes)

1. staple (wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper)
2. (on clothing) fastener, hook

Related terms

• agrafer
• agrafeuse

Verb

agrafe

1. inflection of agrafer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “agrafe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɡɾa.fi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɡɾa.fi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɡɾa.fe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈɡɾa.fɨ/ [ɐˈɣɾa.fɨ]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -afi, (Portugal) -afɨ
• Hyphenation: a‧gra‧fe

Etymology 1

Noun

agrafe m (plural agrafes)

1. alternative form of agrafo

Etymology 2

Verb

agrafe

1. inflection of agrafar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “agrafe”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026