mappa

See also: MAPPA

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: mappas, mappât

Verb

mappa

1. third-person singular past historic of mapper

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish mappe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmahpa]
• Rhymes: -ahpa

Noun

mappa f (genitive singular möppu, nominative plural möppur)

1. folder, file
2. (computing) folder, directory

Declension

Declension of mappa (feminine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mappa	mappan	möppur	möppurnar
accusative	möppu	möppuna	möppur	möppurnar
dative	möppu	möppunni	möppum	möppunum
genitive	möppu	möppunnar	mappa	mappanna

Derived terms

• bréfamappa
• gatamappa
• hvítflibbamöppudýr
• lausblaðamappa
• leðurmappa
• myndamappa
• möppudýr
• plastmappa
• skjalamappa
• skrifborðsmappa
• verkefnamappa
• vinnumappa

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmap.pa/
• Rhymes: -appa
• Hyphenation: màp‧pa

Etymology 1

From Latin mappa, of possibly Semitic origin.

Noun

mappa f (plural mappe)

1. (regional) tablecloth, napkin, cloth
2. (archaic) any pictorial representation of a piece of land
3. (topography) any graphic representation with a scale above 1:10,000; map, chart
4. (video games) map
5. the final part in a traditional key

Derived terms

• mappaggio
• mappale
• mappare

Related terms

• mappamondo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mappa

1. inflection of mappare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• pampa

Latin

Etymology

Said by the Roman author Quintilian to be of Punic origin, perhaps from Phoenician 𐤌𐤀𐤐 (mʾp /⁠mappē⁠/), from Proto-Semitic *manpay, *manpiy- (“fine cloth, sieve”). Compare Israeli Hebrew מַפָּה (mappā́, “a map; a cloth”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmap.pa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmap.pa]

Noun

mappa f (genitive mappae); first declension

1. napkin

   Coordinate term: mantēle

2. (horse racing) starting signal
3. (New Latin) map

   Synonyms: (Classical Latin) tabula, (Medieval Latin) charta

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mappa	mappae
genitive	mappae	mappārum
dative	mappae	mappīs
accusative	mappam	mappās
ablative	mappā	mappīs
vocative	mappa	mappae

Descendants

• → Catalan: mapa m
• → Danish: mappe
• → English: map
  • → Irish: mapa
• → Esperanto: mapo
• Galician: mapa m
• → German: Mappe
  • → Czech: mapa
  • → Dutch: map
  • → Romanian: mapă
• Italian: mappa
• Mirandese: mapa
• → Old French: mapamonde
  • > French: mappemonde, mapper (inherited)
  • Middle English: mapemounde
    • English: map
• > Old French: nappe (inherited)
  • → English: nape, napkin, nappy
  • ⇒ Portuguese: guardanapo
• → Polish: mapa, mappa (Middle Polish), małpa (Eastern Lublin, Chełm Land)
  • → Belarusian: ма́па (mápa)
  • → Ukrainian: ма́па (mápa)
  • → Yiddish: מאַפּע (mape)
• Portuguese: mapa m
• Sicilian: mappa, mappina
• Spanish: mapa m
• Venetan: mapa

Further reading

• “mappa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mappa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "mappa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “mappa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “mappa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mappa”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian mappa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmap.pa/
• Rhymes: -appa

Noun

mappa f (plural mapep)

1. map (visual representation of an area)

Related terms

• mappamondu
• mmappja

Portuguese

Noun

mappa m (plural mappas)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of mapa

Swedish

Etymology

From English map.

Verb

mappa (present mappar, preterite mappade, supine mappat, imperative mappa)

1. (colloquial, computer science) to map
2. (slang, geography) to map

Conjugation

Conjugation of mappa (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	mappa		mappas
supine	mappat		mappats
imperative	mappa		—
imper. plural1	mappen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	mappar	mappade	mappas	mappades
ind. plural1	mappa	mappade	mappas	mappades
subjunctive2	mappe	mappade	mappes	mappades
present participle		mappande
past participle		mappad

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Synonyms

• avbilda
• kartlägga
• tilldela

Related terms

• mappning