sapé

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sape"

French

Participle

sapé (feminine sapée, masculine plural sapés, feminine plural sapées)

  1. past participle of saper

Neapolitan

Verb

sapé

  1. alternative spelling of sapere (to know)

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saˈpɛ/
  • Rhymes:
  • Hyphenation: sa‧pé

Etymology 1

Noun

sapé (unpossessable)

  1. satintail (any grass in the genus Imperata)
Descendants
  • Portuguese: sapé, sapê

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

sapé

  1. R2 of

Further reading

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saˈpe/

Verb

sapé

  1. to hoe

Further reading

  • “sapé” in Grande Dizionario Piemontese Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • sapê

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi sapé.[1]

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes:
  • Hyphenation: sa‧pé

Noun

sapé m (plural sapés)

  1. (Brazil) satintail (any grass in the genus Imperata)
    1. (strictly) Brazilian satintail (Imperata brasiliensis)
  2. (Brazil, colloquial) thatch (straw used to cover roofs)
    Synonyms: palha, colmo

References

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “sapé”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 437, column 2

Further reading