sape

• IPA^(key): /sap/

Inherited from Old French sappe, from Latin sappa. Compare Italian zappa, Friulian sape, Romanian sapă.

sape f (plural sapes)

1. (regional, agriculture) a small scythe
2. (regional, agriculture) hoe, mattock

• saper

• faux
• houe, hoyau

From saper (“to dress”).

sape f (plural sapes)

1. (colloquial) fashion, style
2. (in the plural) outfit

Inflected forms.

sape

1. inflection of saper:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “sape”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• pesa

From Latin sappa.

sape f (plural sapis)

1. hoe

• sapâ

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.pe/

sape

1. present of saper
2. imperative of saper

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.pe/
• Rhymes: -ape
• Hyphenation: sà‧pe

sape

1. (archaic) third-person singular present indicative of sapere

• sa

• Pesa, aspe, pesa

sape

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sapiō

sape

1. Alternative form of sap

From Proto-West Germanic *saipā, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑː.pe/

sāpe f

1. soap
   • before 1150, Monasteriales Indicia‎ (monastic sign language guide):

     Ðonne þu sapan abban wille þonne gnid þu þinne handa to gædere

     When you want soap, then rub your hands together.

• Middle English: sope, sape
  • English: soap (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: saip, sape
  • → Middle Irish: sóp
  • → Old Norse: sápa
    • Icelandic: sápa
    • Faroese: sápa
    • Norwegian: såpa, såpe
      • → Danish: såpe
        • Norwegian Bokmål: såpe
    • Old Swedish: sāpa
      • Swedish: såpa
        • → Finnish: suopa, soopa

sape

1. optative active singular of sapati (“to swear”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈsape]

sape

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of săpa