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English

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Etymology 1

From Latin scāpus, from Doric Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos). Doublet of native English shaft.

Noun

scape (plural scapes)

  1. (botany) A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
  2. The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
  3. The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect.
  4. (architecture) The shaft of a column.
  5. (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
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Etymology 2

    From Middle English scapen (whence also atscapen and ofscapen (“to escape”)), formed by aphesis from escapen, ascapen (“to escape”). Compare also Old French scapper, a variant of Old French eschaper, formed via similar process. Doublet of escape and scarper.

    Verb

    scape (third-person singular simple present scapes, present participle scaping, simple past and past participle scaped)

    1. (transitive, archaic) To escape (someone or something).
      • c. 1600, John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal, in Poems (1633)
        No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace / As I have seen in one autumnal face. / Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape, / This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape.
      • 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His Second Weeke, […]. David. […].] The Decay. The IIII. Book of the IIII. Day of the II. Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 619:
        He (to beguile the ſimple) makes no bone / To ſvvear by God (for he beleeues ther's none); / His Svvord's his Title; and vvho ſcapes the ſame, / Shall haue a Piſtol, or a Poyſonie dram: […]
      • a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “(please specify the title)”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC:
        Hee will provide you keyes, and locks, to spie, / And scape spies, to good ends

    Noun

    scape (plural scapes)

    1. (archaic) Escape.
    2. (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
    3. (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
    4. (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.
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    Etymology 3

    Probably imitative.

    Noun

    scape (plural scapes)

    1. The cry of the snipe when flushed.
    2. The snipe itself.

    Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
    (See the entry for “scape”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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    Latin

    Noun

    scāpe

    1. vocative singular of scāpus

    Old English

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    Noun

    sċāpe n (West Saxon)

    1. dative singular of sċāp

    Romanian

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    Verb

    scape

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

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