Gestapo
See also: gestapo
English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Gestapo, a contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡɛˈstɑːpəʊ/, (hyper-foreign) /ɡəˈʃtɑːpəʊ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɛˈstɑpoʊ/, (hyper-foreign) /ɡəˈʃtɑpoʊ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːpəʊ
Proper noun
the Gestapo
- (historical, Nazism) The secret police of Nazi Germany.
- 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, page 227:
- Fortunately this was Spain and not Germany. The Spanish secret police had some of the spirit of the Gestapo, but not much of its competence.
- (informal, derogatory, by extension) Any militant oppressive force or group.
- 2009, Ian Dunbar, More Than a Puff of Smoke, page 230:
- Men were frog-marched by the feminist Gestapo into accepting an alien 'politically correct' agenda.
- 2025 June 7, Jacob Crosse, “Protests continue in Los Angeles in response to fascist immigration raids”, in World Socialist Web Site[1]:
- One of those injured by the immigration Gestapo spoke to WSWS reporter Kimie Saito, his head wrapped in white bandages stained with blood.
Derived terms
Translations
the secret police of Nazi Germany
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Further reading
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡestɑpo/, [ˈɡe̞s̠tɑ̝po̞]
- Rhymes: -estɑpo
- Syllabification(key): Ges‧ta‧po
- Hyphenation(key): Ges‧ta‧po
Proper noun
Gestapo
- (Nazi secret police)
Declension
| Inflection of Gestapo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Gestapo | — | |
| genitive | Gestapon | — | |
| partitive | Gestapoa | — | |
| illative | Gestapoon | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Gestapo | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Gestapo | — |
| gen. | Gestapon | ||
| genitive | Gestapon | — | |
| partitive | Gestapoa | — | |
| inessive | Gestapossa | — | |
| elative | Gestaposta | — | |
| illative | Gestapoon | — | |
| adessive | Gestapolla | — | |
| ablative | Gestapolta | — | |
| allative | Gestapolle | — | |
| essive | Gestapona | — | |
| translative | Gestapoksi | — | |
| abessive | Gestapotta | — | |
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Derived terms
German
Etymology
Contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”). The predominant pronunciation with /st/ is from reading out the form as one word and thus to some extent a spelling pronunciation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡeˈstaːpo/, [ɡeˈstaː.po], [ɡə-], [ɡɛsˈtaːpo]
- IPA(key): /ɡeˈʃtaːpo/ (fairly rare)
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
die Gestapo f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Gestapo)
Declension
Declension of Gestapo [sg-only, feminine]
Related terms
- Stapo
Further reading
- Geheime Staatspolizei on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Italian
Proper noun
Gestapo f
Anagrams
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from German Gestapo, a contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɛsˈta.pɔ/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -apɔ
- Syllabification: Ges‧ta‧po
- Homophone: gestapo
Proper noun
Gestapo n (indeclinable)
Declension
Indeclinable
or
Declension of Gestapo
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Gestapo |
| genitive | Gestapa |
| dative | Gestapu |
| accusative | Gestapo |
| instrumental | Gestapem |
| locative | Gestapie |
| vocative | Gestapo |
Related terms
adjective
Further reading
- Gestapo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Gestapo.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ɡesˈta.pu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ɡeʃˈta.pu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ɡesˈta.po/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɡɛʃˈta.pu/
Proper noun
Gestapo f
- (historical) Gestapo (the secret police of the Nazi party)