frappé

See also: frappe and frappè

English

Alternative forms

• frappe

Etymology

Borrowed from French frappé, past participle of frapper (“to hit, strike”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French fraper, from Old Low Franconian *hrappan 'to jerk, snatch' (compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch reppen 'to hurry'), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hrapjaną 'to hurry' (compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English hreppan 'to touch, treat', (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse hrapa 'to hurry; fall', (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German raffen 'to grab'), from *hrapaz (compare Middle Low German rapp 'quick'), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *krob (compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Irish crip, crib 'quick', Tocharian kārpā 'to come down, step down', (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lithuanian krapštýti 'to scratch, rub', (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Church Slavonic krĕpŭkŭ 'firm').

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɹæˈpeɪ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæpeɪ/
• Rhymes: -æpeɪ, -eɪ

Noun

frappé (plural frappés)

1. A frozen fruit-flavoured dessert or appetizer.
2. A liqueur or cocktail served on shaved ice.
3. A movement where the foot is struck against the floor over the ankle in ballet or other forms of dance.

Adjective

frappé (not comparable)

1. Iced; cooled.

Anagrams

• PEPFAR, fapper

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French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

frappé (feminine frappée, masculine plural frappés, feminine plural frappées)

1. beaten, hit

Verb

frappé (feminine frappée, masculine plural frappés, feminine plural frappées)

1. past participle of frapper

Noun

frappé m (plural frappés)

1. (music) downbeat
2. (Switzerland) milkshake
3. Short for café frappé, iced coffee

Further reading

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

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Italian

Noun

frappé m (uncountable)

1. milkshake