tapir
English[edit]


Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpə(ɹ)/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪpə(r)
- Homophone: taper
Noun[edit]
tapir (plural tapirs)
- Any one of the species of large odd-toed ungulates of the taxonomic family Tapiridae with a long prehensile upper lip, of which all four surviving species are in genus Tapirus.
- 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World[1]:
- Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder.
Synonyms[edit]
- (Guyana) bush cow, (Belize) mountain cow
Hyponyms[edit]
- Baird's tapir, Tapirus bairdii
- Brazilian tapir, Tapirus terrestris
- Malayan tapir, Tapirus indicus
- mountain tapir, Tapirus pinchaque
- Tapirus californicus †
- Tapirus copei †
- Tapirus merriami †
- Tapirus polkensis †
- Tapirus veroensis †
- For others see
tapir on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Translations[edit]
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Further reading[edit]
tapir on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Tapirus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Tapirus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tapir m (plural tapirs, diminutive tapirtje n)
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle French tapir, from Old French tapir, borrowed from Frankish *tappijan (“to close, shut in, lock up”), from Frankish *tappō, from Proto-Germanic *tappô.
Verb[edit]
tapir
Conjugation[edit]
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
infinitive | simple | tapir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | tapissant /ta.pi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | tapi /ta.pi/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | tapis /ta.pi/ |
tapis /ta.pi/ |
tapit /ta.pi/ |
tapissons /ta.pi.sɔ̃/ |
tapissez /ta.pi.se/ |
tapissent /ta.pis/ |
imperfect | tapissais /ta.pi.sɛ/ |
tapissais /ta.pi.sɛ/ |
tapissait /ta.pi.sɛ/ |
tapissions /ta.pi.sjɔ̃/ |
tapissiez /ta.pi.sje/ |
tapissaient /ta.pi.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | tapis /ta.pi/ |
tapis /ta.pi/ |
tapit /ta.pi/ |
tapîmes /ta.pim/ |
tapîtes /ta.pit/ |
tapirent /ta.piʁ/ | |
future | tapirai /ta.pi.ʁe/ |
tapiras /ta.pi.ʁa/ |
tapira /ta.pi.ʁa/ |
tapirons /ta.pi.ʁɔ̃/ |
tapirez /ta.pi.ʁe/ |
tapiront /ta.pi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | tapirais /ta.pi.ʁɛ/ |
tapirais /ta.pi.ʁɛ/ |
tapirait /ta.pi.ʁɛ/ |
tapirions /ta.pi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tapiriez /ta.pi.ʁje/ |
tapiraient /ta.pi.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | tapisse /ta.pis/ |
tapisses /ta.pis/ |
tapisse /ta.pis/ |
tapissions /ta.pi.sjɔ̃/ |
tapissiez /ta.pi.sje/ |
tapissent /ta.pis/ |
imperfect2 | tapisse /ta.pis/ |
tapisses /ta.pis/ |
tapît /ta.pi/ |
tapissions /ta.pi.sjɔ̃/ |
tapissiez /ta.pi.sje/ |
tapissent /ta.pis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | tapis /ta.pi/ |
— | tapissons /ta.pi.sɔ̃/ |
tapissez /ta.pi.se/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is only usable with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
tapir m (plural tapirs)
Anagrams[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “tapir” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
tapir
- Alternative form of taper
Polish[edit]
Noun[edit]
tapir m anim
Declension[edit]
Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old Tupi tapi'ira.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tapir m (plural tapires)
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: ta‧pir
Noun[edit]
tapir m (plural tapires)
- tapir
- Synonyms: danta (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Southern Mexico, Venezuela), anta (Bolivia, Northern Argentina), vaca de monte (Ecuador), danto (Honduras, Nicaragua), ante (Mexico), macho de monte (Panama, Colombian Pacific Coast), mboreví (Paraguay), sachavaca (Peru), anteburro (Southern Mexico)
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.
Noun[edit]
tapir c
Declension[edit]
Declension of tapir | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | tapir | tapiren | tapirer | tapirerna |
Genitive | tapirs | tapirens | tapirers | tapirernas |
References[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Tagalog[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Spanish tapir (“tapir”), from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.
Noun[edit]
tapír
- English terms borrowed from French
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- pt:Odd-toed ungulates
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- Swedish terms borrowed from French
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- tl:Odd-toed ungulates