tope

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See also: Tope, topé, topě, and -tope

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Alteration of obsolete top (“to drink”), as in top (off).

Verb

tope (third-person singular simple present topes, present participle toping, simple past and past participle toped)

  1. (archaic) To drink excessively; to get drunk.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

tope (plural topes)

  1. A small, grey, European shark, Galeorhinus galeus, that has rough skin and a long snout.
Translations

Etymology 3

From Tamil.

Noun

tope (plural topes)

  1. (India) A grove of trees.
    • 1868?, James Grant, First Love and Last Love
      Concealed among the long rank grass of the mango tope the three lurkers watched the gate of the camp; but though many passcd out and in, the rider on the bay mare was not one of the number.
    • 2011, Chandra Mallampalli, Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India:
      In addition, a memorandum was kept containing receipts and issues of toddy drawn at a toddy tope.

Etymology 4

Probably from Pali thūpa. Doublet of stupa.

Noun

tope (plural topes)

  1. A mound-like Buddhist sepulchre, or memorial monument, often erected over a relic; a stupa.

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

tope

  1. inflection of topar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Hoyahoya

Noun

tope

  1. meat

References

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɔ.pe/
  • Rhymes: -ɔpe
  • Hyphenation: tò‧pe

Noun

tope f pl

  1. plural of topa

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

tope

  1. Alternative form of top

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: to‧pe

Etymology 1

Deverbal from topar.

Noun

tope m (plural topes)

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Etymology 2

Verb

tope

  1. inflection of topar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

tope (Cyrillic spelling топе)

  1. third-person plural present of topiti

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtope/
  • Rhymes: -ope
  • Syllabification: to‧pe

Etymology 1

Deverbal from topar.

Noun

tope m (plural topes)

  1. butt, end, butt end
  2. stop, catch, snag (also figuratively)
  3. collision
  4. quarrel, fight
  5. reinforcement
  6. (railway) buffer, bumper
  7. (nautical) masthead, lookout
  8. (Mexico) speed bump
    Synonym: (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) túmulo
  9. (Costa Rica, Nicaragua) equestrian parade usually held on the first day of a festival
Synonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old French top (“top, summit”), from Frankish *top; compare English top.

Noun

tope m (plural topes)

  1. top, limit

Adverb

tope

  1. (colloquial, Spain) really
    Es tope feo
    He's dead ugly

Etymology 3

Verb

tope

  1. inflection of topar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

tope (ma class, plural matope)

  1. mud

West Flemish

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Seems derived from Latin talpa?”

Noun

tope f (plural toopn, diminutive tooptje)

  1. vole
  2. shrew

Alternative forms

West Makian

Pronunciation

Verb

tope

  1. (modal, auxiliary) to want to (do something)
    Synonym: seba
    de tope tefiam ― I want to eat
  2. (modal, auxiliary) to intend to (do something)
    Synonym: seba

Usage notes

This term does not appear to be conjugated.

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics
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