sape

• IPA^(key): /sap/

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. first-person singular present indicative of saper
2. third-person singular present indicative of saper
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of saper
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of saper
5. second-person singular imperative of saper

• pesa

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

From Latin sappa.

sape f (plural sapis)

1. hoe

• sapâ

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.pe/

sape

1. present of saper
2. imperative of saper

• Rhymes: -ape

sape

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

• sa

• pesa

sape

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sapiō

From Anglo-Frisian *saipǣ, from West Germanic *saipā, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑːpe/

sāpe f

1. soap

• 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: såpe
    • Old Swedish: sāpa
      • Swedish: såpa
        • → Finnish: suopa