ape

• enPR: āp, IPA^(key): /eɪp/

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• Rhymes: -eɪp

From Middle English ape, from Old English apa (“ape, monkey”), from Proto-Germanic *apô (“monkey, ape”), possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”), compare Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”), if the word originally referred to a "water sprite". Traditionally assumed to be an ancient loanword instead, ultimately probably from an unidentified non-Indo-European language of regions in Africa or Asia where monkeys are native. Cognate with Scots aip (“ape”), West Frisian aap (“ape”), Dutch aap (“monkey, ape”), Low German Ape (“ape”), German Affe (“monkey, ape”), Swedish apa (“monkey, ape”), Icelandic api (“ape”).

ape (plural apes)

1. A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
2. Any such primate other than a human.
3. (derogatory) An uncivilised person.
4. One who apes; a foolish imitator.

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ape (third-person singular simple present apes, present participle aping or apeing, simple past and past participle aped)

1. (intransitive) To behave like an ape.
2. (transitive) To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.
   • 1961, J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, vol. 92, p. 454,

     It is not conceived as a mere “aping” in externals nor as an enacting in the sense of assuming a foreign role.

• aper

Clipping of apeshit (“ape-shit (crazy)”).

ape (not comparable)

1. (slang) Wild; crazy.

   We were ape over the new look.

   He went ape when he heard the bad news.

• monkey
• troop (collective noun)
• Appendix: Animals

• EAP, EPA, PAE, PEA, Pae, Pea, pea

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.pə/

ape

1. plural of aap

ape

1. plural of apa

appaa +‎ -e

ape

1. horse feed
2. (colloquial) food

ape (plural apes)

1. bee

• apicultura

From Latin apis, apem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.pe/

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• Rhymes: -ape

ape f (plural api)

1. (entomology) bee

   Synonym: pecchia

2. (colloquial) honeybee

   Synonyms: ape da miele, ape domestica

• ape on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

ape

1. second-person singular present active imperative of apō

• ape in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• eape, aape

From Old English apa, from Proto-Germanic *apô.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːp(ə)/

ape (plural apes or apen)

1. An ape or monkey; a simian creature.
2. A deceiver; a conman or charlatan.
3. A gullible or foolish person.

• English: ape
• Scots: ape, aip

• “āpe (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.

ape

1. plural of apa

• IPA^(key): /aːpe/

From Old Norse api.

ape f or m (definite singular apa or apen, indefinite plural aper, definite plural apene)

1. ape, monkey

• apekatt
• primat

ape (imperative ap, present tense aper, passive apes, simple past apa or apet or apte, past participle apa or apet or apt, present participle apende)

1. to ape, mimic or imitate.

• “ape” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse api.

ape m (definite singular apen, indefinite plural apar, definite plural apane)

ape f (definite singular apa, indefinite plural aper, definite plural apene)

1. ape, monkey

• apekatt
• primat

• apa

ape (present tense apar or aper, past tense apa or apte, past participle apa or apt, passive infinitive apast, present participle apande, imperative ap)

1. to ape, mimic or imitate.

• “ape” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): [ˈape]

ape f pl

1. plural of apă