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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
aper (plural apers)
- Someone who apes something
- 1908, Rupert Sargent Holland, Builders of United Italy, page 175:
- Valerio ridiculed the proposal to his friends and called Cavour an aper of English customs.
Synonyms
Translations
someone who apes something — see imitator
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German
Etymology
From Middle High German āber, from Old High German ābar (“sunny, warm, dry”), from ā- (“from, away”, prefix) + bar (“bare”), likely via a defunct verb *ābarēn, *ābarōn (“to lay bare, expose”). Alternatively, from a verb *āberan (“to not bear, not carry”). Sense likely influenced by unrelated Latin aprīcus due to superficial similarity of form and meaning.
Pronunciation
Adjective
aper (strong nominative masculine singular aperer, comparative aperer or aprer, superlative am apersten)
- (Bavaria, Austria, Switzerland) snowless
- Synonym: (general) schneefrei
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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *apros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-r-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *eburaz, Proto-Slavic *veprь.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈa.pɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaː.per]
Noun
aper m (genitive aprī); second declension
- a wild boar
- (figuratively) a standard of the Roman legions
Declension
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sardinian: apru
- Italian: apro
References
- “aper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aper”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “aper”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “aper”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “aper”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
aper m or f
- indefinite plural of ape
Verb
aper
Norwegian Nynorsk
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Noun
aper m or f
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