laps

• enPR: lăps, IPA^(key): /læps/
• Homophones: lapse, Lapps

laps

1. plural of lap

laps

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lap

• ALPs, APLS, APLs, ASPL, Alps, PALS, PALs, Pals, Plas, SPLA, alps, pals, salp, slap

From Latin lapis.

laps m (indefinite plural lapsa, definite singular lapsi, definite plural lapsat)

1. pencil

From Proto-Albanian *lapitja, close to Greek λαπαρός (laparós, “weak”), λαπάζω (lapázo, “to weaken”).[1]

laps (first-person singular past tense lapsa, participle lapsur)

1. I wear out, tire

From Proto-Albanian *laubitja, related to Sanskrit लुभ्यति (lúbhyati, “to wish”), Proto-Slavic *l'ubiti (“to love”).[2]

laps (first-person singular past tense lapsa, participle lapsur)

1. I wish, want

• IPA^(key): /laps/, [lɑb̥s]

laps c (singular definite lapsen, plural indefinite lapse)

1. fop, dandy (a man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance)
2. a shabby man [from 1990]

• lapset ("foppish", "shabby")

From Proto-Finnic *lapci. Cognate with Finnish lapsi.

laps (genitive lapse, partitive last)

1. child
2. someone's child

• lapsik
• esiklaps
• lastehaigla

• IPA^(key): /lap.sys/

Borrowed from Latin lapsus (“fall”). Doublet of lapsus.

laps m (plural laps)

1. lapse

• laps de temps

From Latin lapsus (“fallen”)

laps (invariable)

1. (archaic) apostate of Catholicism

• laps et relaps

• “laps” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).