aprés

See also: apres, après, and âpres

English

Preposition

aprés

1. Nonstandard spelling of apres.
2. Nonstandard spelling of après.
   • 2004, Brian Thacker, The Naked Man Festival [1]

     After dinner we decided to take an aprés-lobster stroll around town.

Anagrams

• Asper, Earps, Pears, Peras, RESPA, Rapes, Spear, Spera, apers, as per, asper, pares, parse, pears, prase, presa, præs., rapes, reaps, sarpe, spare, spear

Catalan

Participle

aprés (feminine apresa, masculine plural apresos, feminine plural apreses)

1. (Valencia) Alternative spelling of après

Middle French

Alternative forms

• apres (some manuscripts)
• aprez

Etymology

From Old French aprés.

Adverb

aprés

1. after
   • 1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 25:

     Yvain […] s'en alla aprez le geyant

     Ywain […] went after the giant

Descendants

• French: après (see there for further descendants)

Old Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin ad pressum.

Adverb

aprés

1. near, around

References

• “aprés” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Old French

Alternative forms

• apres (manuscript form)

Etymology

From Late Latin ad pressum, from Latin ad + pressum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈpɾɛs/

Adverb

aprés

1. after; afterwards
   • c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval ou le conte du Graal:

     Aprés li venoient puceles
     assez, autres, gentes et beles

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• Middle French: aprés, apres; aprez
  • French: après (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: après (Jersey), oprès (Guernsey), aumprès, auprès

Spanish

Alternative forms

• apres (obsolete, some manuscripts)

Etymology

Derived from Late Latin ad pressum, from Latin ad + pressum. It could either represent an inherited form, in which case the lack of diphthongization or a final vowel would be due to the word being predominantly unstressed (the expected outcome otherwise would be *aprieso), or more likely it could represent a borrowing from Gallo-Romance; cf. Old Catalan aprés, French après.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈpɾes/ [aˈpɾes]
• Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: a‧prés

Adverb

aprés

1. (obsolete) near; close
2. (obsolete) after; afterwards
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 3v. a.

     Apres de esau salio el otro.

     After Esau came out the other one.

Further reading

• “aprés”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “aprés”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 302