different between alburnum vs sap

English

Etymology

From Latin alburnum, from albus (“white”), since it is often paler in color than the heartwood.

Noun

alburnum (usually uncountable, plural alburnums)

1. sapwood; the soft, newer wood in the trunk of a tree found between the bark and the hardened heartwood.

Translations

Anagrams

• laburnum

Latin

Etymology

From albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /al?bur.num/, [ä???b?rn???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /al?bur.num/, [?l?burnum]

Noun

alburnum n (genitive alburn?); second declension

1. alburnum; sapwood

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

• English: alburnum
• Italian: alburno
• Portuguese: alburno, borne
• Spanish: alburno

References

• alburnum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• alburnum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• alburnum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• “alburnum” on page 93/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sæp/
• Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

From Middle English sap, from Old English sæp (“juice, sap”), from Proto-Germanic *sap? (“sap, juice”) (compare Dutch sap, German Saft, Icelandic safi), from Proto-Indo-European *sab-, *sap- (“to taste”) (compare Welsh syb-wydd (“fir”), Latin sapa (“must, new wine”), Russian ?????? (sópli, “snivel”), Armenian ??? (ham, “juice, taste”), Avestan ????????-????????????????? (vi-š?pa, “having poisonous juices”), Sanskrit ???? (sabar, “juice, nectar”)). More at sage.

Noun

sap (countable and uncountable, plural saps)

1. (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
2. (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
3. Any juice.
4. (figuratively) Vitality.
5. (slang, countable) A naive person; a simpleton

   Synonyms: milksop, saphead

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

sap (third-person singular simple present saps, present participle sapping, simple past and past participle sapped)

1. (transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
2. (transitive, figuratively) To exhaust the vitality of.

Etymology 2

Probably from sapling.

Noun

sap (plural saps)

1. (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
   • 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)

     I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.

Translations

Verb

sap (third-person singular simple present saps, present participle sapping, simple past and past participle sapped)

1. (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
   • 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)

     [A]s he passes the mouth of a narrow alley two men step out quickly. One of them saps Marlowe expertly -- they drag him out of sight.

Translations

Etymology 3

From French saper (compare Spanish zapar and Italian zappare) from sape (“sort of scythe”), from Late Latin sappa (“sort of mattock”).

Noun

sap (plural saps)

1. (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Derived terms

• sap fagot
• sap roller
• sapper

Translations

Verb

sap (third-person singular simple present saps, present participle sapping, simple past and past participle sapped)

1. (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
2. (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
3. (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
   • 1850, Alfred Tennyson, Ring, Out, Wild Bells

     Ring out the grief that saps the mind […]

4. (transitive) To gradually weaken.

5. (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

Translations

Anagrams

• APS, APs, ASP, PAS, PAs, PSA, Pas, Psa., SPA, Spa, asp, pas, spa

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• sapu, tsap, tsapu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *sapp?, from Latin sappa. Compare Romanian s?pa, sap, French saper, Italian zappare, Sicilian zappari, Spanish zapar, Friulian sapâ, Venetian sapar, Latin sappa.

Verb

sap (past participle sãpatã)

1. I dig (with a pick).

Related terms

• sãpari / sãpare
• sãpat
• sapã
• sãpãtor
• sãpãturã

See also

• tãrchescu
• arãm

Catalan

Alternative forms

• sab (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sap/
• Rhymes: -ap

Verb

sap

1. third-person singular present indicative form of saber

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sap, from Old Dutch *sap, from Proto-Germanic *sap?. Cognate to English sap and German Saft (from Old High German saf).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?p/
• Hyphenation: sap
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

sap n (plural sappen, diminutive sapje n)

1. sap (fluid in plants)
2. juice

   Hyponyms: aalbessensap, appelsap, citroensap, druivensap, sinaasappelsap, vruchtensap

Derived terms

• aalbessensap
• appelsap
• appelsiensap
• bessensap
• bietensap
• boomsap
• citroensap
• druivensap
• maagsap
• perensap
• sappig
• sinaasappelsap
• vruchtensap
• wortelsap
• zwartebessensap

Descendants

• Afrikaans: sap

References

Anagrams

• pas

Kholosi

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (sarpa).

Noun

sap ?

1. snake

References

• Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) , “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx?^[1], pages 13-36

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sap/

Verb

sap

1. second-person singular imperative of sapa?

Romani

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (sarpá, “snake”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sarpás. Cognate with Punjabi ??? (sappa, “snake”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sap m (plural sapa)

1. snake

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sap]

Verb

sap

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of s?pa

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (sap, “handle; stalk; hair”), from Old Turkic sap? (sap), from Proto-Turkic [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?p/

Noun

sap (definite accusative sap?, plural saplar)

1. handle
2. stem, stalk
3. (slang) penis

Declension

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sappi.

Noun

sap

1. gall (bile)

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sapi? (“I am wise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??p/

Noun

sap

1. wisdom

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /?a?p??/
• Tone numbers: sap⁷
• Hyphenation: sap

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *sa?p? (“cockroach”). Cognate with Thai ??? (sàap), Lao ??? (s?p), Shan ????? (sàap), Bouyei saabt.

Noun

sap (Sawndip form ????, old orthography sap)

1. cockroach

Etymology 2

Verb

sap (old orthography sap)

1. to wear shoes with the heels stepping down on the back of the shoes