laps

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: lăps, IPA^(key): /læps/
• Homophones: lapse, Lapps

Noun

laps

1. plural of lap

Verb

laps

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of lap

Anagrams

• ALPs, APLS, APLs, ASPL, Alps, PALS, PALs, PLAs, Pals, Plas, SPLA, alps, pals, salp, slap

Albanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin lapis.

Noun

laps m (plural lapsa, definite lapsi, definite plural lapsat)

1. pencil

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *lapitja, close to Greek λαπαρός (laparós, “weak”), λαπάζω (lapázo, “to weaken”).

Verb

laps (aorist lapsa, participle lapsur)

1. to wear out, tire

Etymology 3

From Proto-Albanian *laubitja, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, related to Sanskrit लुभ्यति (lúbhyati, “to wish”), Proto-Slavic *l'ubiti (“to love”). Ultimately a doublet of lyp.

Verb

laps (aorist lapsa, participle lapsur)

1. to wish, want

References

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laps/,

Noun

laps c (singular definite lapsen, plural indefinite lapse)

1. fop, dandy (a man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance)
2. a shabby man

Inflection

Derived terms

• lapset ("foppish", "shabby")

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *lapci. Cognate with Finnish lapsi.

Noun

laps (genitive lapse, partitive last)

1. child
2. someone's child

Declension

Derived terms

• lapsik
• esiklaps
• lastehaigla

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laps/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin lapsus (“fall”). Doublet of lapsus.

Noun

laps m (plural laps)

1. lapse, length (of time)

   un laps de vingt secondes ― a period of twenty seconds

   un laps de quelques heures ― a period of a few hours

   un laps de plusieurs mois ― a period of several months

   • 2007, Joseph Combet, Histoire de la ville et du canton d'Uzerche, page 128:

     […] mais enfin, en payant ces charges et ces rentes, les personnes en faveur desquelles furent faites les concessions, devinrent propriétaires et seigneurs utils. Ainsi s’évanouirent, après un laps d’environ quatre siècles et demi, les menaces et les imprécations fulminées par l’évêque […]

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Usage notes

• Almost always followed by a complement centered on the concept of time, as in the phrase laps de temps (“a period of time”), or units of time like jours (“days”) or années (“years”).

Derived terms

• laps de temps

Etymology 2

From Latin lapsus (“fallen”).

Adjective

laps (invariable)

1. (archaic) apostate of Catholicism

Derived terms

• laps et relaps

Further reading

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

Ingrian

Alternative forms

• lapsi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *lapci. Cognates include Finnish lapsi and Estonian laps.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑps/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑps/,
• Rhymes: -ɑps
• Hyphenation: laps

Noun

laps

1. child
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 34:

     Keitettii se lapsille.

     The children stewed it.

   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 3:

     Minen peräst oppii männöö
     nyt näin paljo lapsia ?

     Why do now so many
     children go to school?

Declension

Derived terms

• (diminutive) lapsukkain

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 249

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laps/,

Noun

laps m (definite singular lapsen, indefinite plural lapser, definite plural lapsene)

1. fop, dandy (a man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance)

References

• “laps” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “laps” in The Bokmål Dictionary.