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English
Noun
alapa (plural alapas)
- Alternative form of alap
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Of unknown origin.
Originally used by Romans to refer to the strike given from master to slave upon manumission as a final act of indignity. First attested in Phaedrus when the Empire was already greatly expanded, then in the Semitic loanword-ridden Juvenal and largely attested in the Christian writings, i. e. from the proponents of a Semitic religion.
Hence, probably from Aramaic אַלַּף (allap̄, “to teach”), and/or from Proto-Semitic *ʔallipa (“to tame, to domesticate; to familiarize, to instruct, to put together, to join”), related via the idea of an ox trained to Proto-Semitic *ʔalp- (“ox, ox in a yoke”).
Noun
alapa f (genitive alapae); first declension
- slap, smack (with the flat of the hand)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “alapa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “alapa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- alapa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- alapa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1907) “Zur romanischen Sprachgeschichte”, in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, volume 31, pages 582–586
- “ˀlp”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
Portuguese
Verb
alapa
- inflection of alapar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Yoruba
Etymology 1
From oní (“the one/thing that has”) + apá (“arm”)
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
alápá
- something armed, with arms
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
àlápà
- (Ijebu) melon cake
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Noun
àlápà
- (Ijebu) pepper soup