lope
English
WOTD – 24 February 2009
Etymology
Alteration of loup, from Old Norse hlaupa (“to leap, jump”)[1]. See leap. Cognate with German laufen (“walk, run”), Danish løbe, Dutch lopen (“walk, run”), Norwegian løpe (“run”).
Verb
lope (third-person singular simple present lopes, present participle loping, simple past and past participle loped)
- To travel an easy pace with long strides.
- 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
- “And the holidays?” Murgo proposed one evening as they loped down a bridlepath past lovers fondling in the grass. “Fun, are they? High living?”
- He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
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- (obsolete, intransitive) To jump, leap.
- 1485 July 31, Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London]: […] [by William Caxton], OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: Published by David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:, Bk.IX, Ch.xxxv:
- And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver
- Middleton
- he that lopes on the ropes
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Translations
Noun
lope (plural lopes)
References
- “lope” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
Afrikaans
Dutch
Pronunciation
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Inari Sami
Etymology
Related to Northern Sami lohpi.
Inflection
Even e-stem, p-v gradation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | lope | |||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | love | |||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | lope | loveh | ||||||||||||||||||||
Accusative | love | luuvijd | ||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | love | luvij luuvij | ||||||||||||||||||||
Illative | lopán | luuvijd | ||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | looveest | luuvijn | ||||||||||||||||||||
Comitative | luuvijn | luvijguin | ||||||||||||||||||||
Abessive | lovettáá | luvijttáá | ||||||||||||||||||||
Essive | loppeen | |||||||||||||||||||||
Partitive | loppeed | |||||||||||||||||||||
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