aper

English

Etymology

ape +‎ -er

Noun

aper (plural apers)

1. Someone who apes something
   • 1908, Rupert Sargent Holland, Builders of United Italy, page 175:

     Valerio ridiculed the proposal to his friends and called Cavour an aper of English customs.

Synonyms

• imitator

Translations

someone who apes something — see imitator

Anagrams

• Earp, Pera, Rape, pare, pear, prae-, præ-, rape, reap

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Latin

aper (a wild boar)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *apros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-r-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *eburaz (whence German Eber), Proto-Slavic *veprь (whence Serbo-Croatian vepar).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.per/, [ˈa.pɛr]

Noun

aper m (genitive aprī); second declension

1. a wild boar
2. (figuratively) a standard of the Roman legions

Inflection

Second declension, nominative singular in -er.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	aper	aprī
genitive	aprī	aprōrum
dative	aprō	aprīs
accusative	aprum	aprōs
ablative	aprō	aprīs
vocative	aper1	aprī

¹May also be apre.

Derived terms

• aprārius
• aprīnus
• aprūgnus

Related terms

• apra

Descendants

• Sardinian: apru

References

• aper in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aper in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “aper” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• aper in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aper in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

aper m, f

1. indefinite plural of ape

Verb

aper

1. present tense of ape

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• apar

Noun

aper m, f

1. indefinite feminine plural of ape