löpsedel
Swedish
Etymology
By surface analysis, löpa (“run”) + sedel (“note”). Attested since 1899[1] in modern sense.
Perhaps from German Laufzettel (“circular (letter, leaflet, or the like distributed widely), routing slip, (UK) docket”). Obsolete senses include circular, routing slip, and complaint note sent to the postal service.
Compare with Danish løbeseddel.
Noun
löpsedel c
- headline poster, newspaper poster, (UK) newspaper billboard[2] (poster that promotes a particular issue of a newspaper)
- Synonym: (colloquial) löp
- (by extension) front page news, a news event with high public interest
- 2004, Per Wästberg, Tilbaka i tid[2], page 126:
- De privata passionerna utspelas numer på löpsedlarna.
- The private passions are today played out on the frontpages.
- (literally, “The private passions are today played out on the headline posters.”)
- (postal, obsolete) A type of form (e.g. request for extra transport) that is sent from one post office to another nearby post office and repeated until it has achieved its specified purpose.
- (by extension, obsolete) A complaints form regarding missing delivery that is handled by every post office along a specified route.
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | löpsedel | löpsedels |
| definite | löpsedeln | löpsedelns | |
| plural | indefinite | löpsedlar | löpsedlars |
| definite | löpsedlarna | löpsedlarnas |
Descendants
- → Finnish: lööppi
References
- löpsedel in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- löpsedel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- löpsedel in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- [3] in Nordisk familjebok (2nd ed., 1912)
- ^ “Tryckfrihetsåtalet mot Stockholms-Tidningen”, in Kristianstads Läns Tidning, 17 May 1899, retrieved 11 November 2022
- ^ “Billboards from around the country”, in BBC News Online[1], BBC, 27 April 2009, retrieved 4 March 2015