canapé

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canapé

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Canapé (furniture)

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Borrowed from French canapé. Doublet of canopy and conopeum.

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canapé (plural canapés)

1. An hors d’oeuvre, a bite-sized open-faced sandwich made of thin bread or toast topped with savory garnish.
2. A piece of furniture similar to a couch or settee, an elegant sofa.
   • 1908, Upton Sinclair, The Metropolis, New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, page 29:

     Oliver was sitting on the edge of the canapé, swinging one leg over the other; and he stopped abruptly and stared, and then sank back, laughing softly to himself.

• Canepa

canapé m (plural canapés)

1. (Valencia) Alternative spelling of canapè

Borrowed from French canapé. Attested since the 18th century.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkaː.naːˈpeː/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧na‧pé
• Rhymes: -eː

canapé m (plural canapés, diminutive canapeetje n)

1. canapé (food)
2. canapé (furniture)
   • 1966 [1951], Annie M.G. Schmidt, “Tante Trui en Tante Toosje [Aunt Trui and Aunt Toosje]”, in De spin Sebastiaan [Sebastian the Spider]‎, Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers, page 57:

     't Water steeg en bleef maar stijgen / en de hele kanapee / ging toen langzaam aan het drijven / en de tantes dreven mee.

     The water rose and kept rising / and the entire canapé / slowly went afloat / and the aunts floated along with it.

• canap’

From Old French conopé, conope (later altered in form and meaning based on Medieval Latin canāpēum, alteration of canōpēum (“mosquito net”)), itself from Latin cōnōpēum (“seat with a canopy”), from Ancient Greek κωνωπεῖον (kōnōpeîon), from κώνωψ (kṓnōps, “mosquito”). Cognate with English canopy.

• IPA^(key): /ka.na.pe/

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canapé m (plural canapés)

1. sofa
2. piece of bread covered with some savory (finger) food
3. nibble (small bits of food, e.g. at a party)

• promotion canapé

• canopée

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
• H. H. Mallinckrodt, Latijn Nederlands woordenboek (Aula n° 24), Utrecht-Antwerpen, Spectrum, 1959

• “canapé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• pacane

Unadapted borrowing from French canapé, from Old French conopé, conope (later altered in form and meaning based on Medieval Latin canāpēum, alteration of canōpēum (“mosquito net”)), itself from Latin cōnōpēum (“seat with a canopy”), from Ancient Greek κωνωπεῖον (kōnōpeîon), from κώνωψ (kṓnōps, “mosquito”).

canapé (first-person possessive canapéku, second-person possessive canapému, third-person possessive canapénya)

1. (cooking) canapé: an hors d’oeuvre, a bite-sized open-faced sandwich made of thin bread or toast topped with savory garnish.

• “canapé” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from French canapé.^[1][2]

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: ca‧na‧pé

canapé m (plural canapés)

1. canapé (a bite-size slice open-faced sandwich)
2. canapé (a type of elegant sofa)

Borrowed from French canapé.

• IPA^(key): /kanaˈpe/
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: ca‧na‧pé

canapé m (plural canapés)

1. canapé (food)
2. canapé (furniture)
3. snack food

• → Tagalog: kanape

• “canapé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28