sapo

From Latin sāpō, English soap

• IPA^(key): /ˈsapo/

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• Hyphenation: sa‧po

sapo (accusative singular sapon, plural sapoj, accusative plural sapojn)

1. soap

• sapŝaŭmo (“soap lather”)
• sapumi (“to soap up”)
• sapveziko (“soap bubble”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈs̺apʊ]

sapo m (plural sapos)

1. toad

• Sapeira

From Proto-Germanic *saipǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *seyp- (“to pour out, trickle, strain”). Cognate with Old English sāpe (“soap, salve”), Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade, unguent”), Latin sēbum (“tallow, grease”). More at soap.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.poː/

sāpō m (genitive sāpōnis); third declension

1. soap

Third declension.

• sāpōnātum

• Aromanian: sãpuni, sãpune
• Corsican: savone, sapone
• Dalmatian: sapaun
• Emilian: savòun
• Friulian: savon
• Italian: sapone
  • → Hungarian: szappan
• Lombard: savón
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: sabón
• Old French: sapon, sabon, savon
  • Middle French: savon
    • French: savon (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: savon
  • → Breton: saon, soavon
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: xabón
  • Mirandese: xabon
• Old Occitan: sabon
  • Catalan: sabó
  • Occitan: sabon
• Old Portuguese: sabon, sabõ
  • Galician: xabón, xabrón
  • Portuguese: sabão (see there for further descendants)
• Old Spanish: xabon
  • Ladino:

    Hebrew: שאבון‎

    Latin: shavón

  • Spanish: jabón (see there for further descendants)
  • → Japanese: シャボン (shabon)
• Romanian: săpun
• Romansch: savun, savung, savùn
• Sardinian: sabone, saboni, saoni
• Sicilian: sapuni
  • → Maltese: sapuna
• Venetian: saon, savon
• → Albanian: sapun
• → Ancient Greek: σάπων (sápōn) (see there for further descendants)
• → Arabic: صابون‎ (ṣābūn) (see there for further descendants)
• → Celtic:
  • Cornish: seban
  • Manx: sheeabin
  • Scottish Gaelic: siabann
  • Welsh: sebon
• → Macedonian: сапун (sapun)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сапун

  Latin: sapun

• sebum

• sapo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sapo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• sapo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• sapo in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sapo in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

From Old Portuguese sapo, of unknown origin. Possibly from Iberian.

Cognate with Galician sapo, Mirandese sapo, Asturian sapu, Spanish sapo, Aragonese zapo and Basque apo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.pu/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.po/
• Hyphenation: sa‧po
• Rhymes: -apu

sapo m (plural sapos)

1. toad (amphibian in Anura with drier skin)

• rã

Unknown, possibly from Iberian, cognate with Basque apo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsapo/

sapo m (plural sapos, feminine sapa, feminine plural sapas)

1. toad
2. (Chile, Ecuador, Peru, colloquial) a very curious person
3. (Chile, Ecuador, Peru, colloquial) a voyeur
4. (Chile, Ecuador, Peru, colloquial, derogatory) informer

• (voyeur): mirón
• (informer): informante, chivato

• sapa
• sapear

• rana f
• renacuajo m, ranacuajo m

• aspo
• paso
• poas
• posa
• sopa