canapé
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French canapé. Doublet of canopy.
Noun
canapé (plural canapés)
- An hors d’oeuvre, a bite-sized open-faced sandwich made of thin bread or toast topped with savory garnish.
- A piece of furniture similar to a couch or settee, an elegant sofa.
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French canapé. Attested since the 18th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
canapé m (plural canapés, diminutive canapeetje n)
French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French conopé, conope (later altered in form and meaning based on (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "ML." is not valid. See WT:LOL. canāpēum, alteration of canōpēum (“mosquito net”)), itself from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cōnōpēum (“seat with a canopy”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek κωνωπεῖον (kōnōpeîon), from κώνωψ (kṓnōps, “mosquito”). Cognate with English canopy.
Pronunciation
Noun
canapé m (plural canapés)
- sofa
- piece of bread covered with some savory (finger) food
- nibble (small bits of food, e.g. at a party)
Descendants
- → Albanian: kanape
- → Alemannic German: Kanepe
- → Arabic: كَنَبة (kanaba)
- → Belarusian: кана́па (kanápa)
- → Czech: kanape
- → Danish: kanapé, kanape, canapé, canape
- → English: canapé
- → Finnish: kanapee
- → German: Kanapee, Canapé
- → Hungarian: kanapé
- → Greek: καναπές (kanapés)
- → Italian: canapè
- → Japanese: カナッペ (kanappe)
- → Korean: 카나페 (kanape)
- → Kurdish: qenepe
- → Lithuanian: kanapa
- → Macedonian: канабе (kanabe)
- → Persian: کاناپه (kânâpe)
- → Polish: kanapa
- → Portuguese: canapé
- → Romanian: canapea
- → Russian: канапе́ (kanapé)
- → Spanish: canapé
- → Swedish: kanapé
- → Turkish: kanepe
- → Vilamovian: kanapē
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
- H. H. Mallinckrodt, Latijn Nederlands woordenboek (Aula n° 24), Utrecht-Antwerpen, Spectrum, 1959 [Latin - Dutch dictionary in Dutch]
Further reading
- “canapé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Portuguese
Noun
canapé m (plural canapés)
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
canapé m (plural canapés)
- canapé (food)
- canapé (furniture)
- snack food
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