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English
Noun
daps
- plural of dap
Verb
daps
- third-person singular simple present indicative of dap
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *daps, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂ps (“portion, sacrificial meal”).
Cognate with Ancient Greek δαπάνη (dapánē, “expenditure”), δάπτω (dáptō, “I devour”), Old Armenian տաւն (tawn, “feast”), Old Norse tafn (“sacrifice”). Akin to damnum (“loss, expense”).
Pronunciation
Noun
daps f (genitive dapis); third declension
- A sacrificial or solemn feast, religious banquet.
- A meal, banquet, feast.
- Synonyms: convīvium, epulum, epulae, fēsta, dominium, festīvitās, cōmissātiō
- (Medieval Latin) Fortune, wealth.
Declension
Note that the nominative is sometimes written as dapis and that the genitive plural and the dative singular do not occur.
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “daps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “daps”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dapes 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)
- daps in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “daps”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 301
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 161