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English
Etymology
From Old English sipian, related to seep.
- around 888 AD, K Aelfred, translation of Boethius, Chapter 33, para.5 ,
- "Seo eore hit helt & be sumum dæle swil, & for am sype heo bi eleht."
Pronunciation
Noun
sipe (plural sipes)
- (US) Slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction.
- (British, dialect) A drain.
Verb
sipe (third-person singular simple present sipes, present participle siping, simple past and past participle siped)
- (US) To cut grooves in tires.
- (intransitive, British) To drain, to filter through peat or reeds; to seep.
Anagrams
- EPIs, pies, Peis, Epis, IEPs, pisé, epis, Seip, spie, ipes, PIEs
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
sipe (Cyrillic spelling сипе)
- inflection of sipa:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural