dape

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin dapem (sacrificial feast), from Proto-Italic *daps, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂ps, derived from the root *deh₂p- (to sacrifice; to lose).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈda.pe/
  • Rhymes: -ape
  • Hyphenation: dà‧pe

Noun

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dape f (plural dapi or invariable) (literary, obsolete)

  1. meal, banquet, feast
    Synonym: banchetto
  2. (figurative) aliment, nourishment
    Synonyms: nutrimento, vivanda
    • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIII”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎[1], lines 40–46; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Come foco di nube si diserra
      per dilatarsi sì che non vi cape,
      e fuor di sua natura in giù s’atterra,
      la mente mia così, tra quelle dape
      fatta più grande, di sé stessa uscìo,
      e che si fesse rimembrar non sape.
      As fire from out a cloud unlocks itself, dilating so it finds not room therein, and down, against its nature, falls to earth, so did my mind, among those aliments becoming larger, issue from itself, and that which it became cannot remember.

Further reading

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  • dape in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Latin

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Noun

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dape

  1. ablative singular of daps

Sranan Tongo

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Adverb

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dape

  1. Alternative form of drape