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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dapem (“sacrificial feast”), from Proto-Italic *daps, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂ps, derived from the root *deh₂p- (“to sacrifice; to lose”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈda.pe/
- Rhymes: -ape
- Hyphenation: dà‧pe
Noun
dape f (plural dapi or invariable) (literary, obsolete)
- meal, banquet, feast
- Synonym: banchetto
- (figurative) aliment, nourishment
- Synonyms: nutrimento, vivanda
c. 1316–1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIII”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 40–46; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:Come foco di nube si diserra
per dilatarsi sì che non vi cape,
e fuor di sua natura in giù s’atterra,
la mente mia così, tra quelle dape
fatta più grande, di sé stessa uscìo,
e che si fesse rimembrar non sape.- As fire from out a cloud unlocks itself, dilating so it finds not room therein, and down, against its nature, falls to earth, so did my mind, among those aliments becoming larger, issue from itself, and that which it became cannot remember.
Further reading
- dape in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
dape
- ablative singular of daps
Sranan Tongo
Adverb
dape
- Alternative form of drape