different between ape vs australopith

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?p, IPA^(key): /e?p/
• Rhymes: -e?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English ape, from Old English apa (“ape, monkey”), from Proto-West Germanic *ap?, from Proto-Germanic *apô (“monkey, ape”), possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *h?ep- (“water”), compare Proto-Celtic *ab? (“river”), if the word originally referred to a "water sprite". Traditionally assumed to be an ancient loanword instead, ultimately probably from an unidentified non-Indo-European language of regions in Africa or Asia where monkeys are native. Cognate with Scots aip (“ape”), West Frisian aap (“ape”), Dutch aap (“monkey, ape”), Low German Ape (“ape”), German Affe (“monkey, ape”), Swedish apa (“monkey, ape”), Icelandic api (“ape”).

Noun

ape (plural apes)

1. A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
2. Any such primate other than a human.
3. (derogatory) An uncivilised person.
4. One who apes; a foolish imitator.

Hyponyms

• (young or small): apeling, apelet (uncommon)
• (female): apess (rare)
• See also Thesaurus:ape

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

ape (third-person singular simple present apes, present participle aping or apeing, simple past and past participle aped)

1. (intransitive) To behave like an ape.
2. (transitive) To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.
   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XXI:

     But there’s this difference; one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver.

   • 1961, J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, vol. 92, p. 454,

     It is not conceived as a mere “aping” in externals nor as an enacting in the sense of assuming a foreign role.

Derived terms

• aper

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of apeshit (“ape-shit (crazy)”).

Adjective

ape (not comparable)

1. (slang) Wild; crazy.

   We were ape over the new look.

   He went ape when he heard the bad news.

See also

• monkey
• troop (collective noun)
• Appendix: Animals

Anagrams

• EAP, EPA, PAE, PEA, Pae, Pea, pea

Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin aqua

Noun

ape f (plural api, definite articulation apa)

1. Alternative form of apã

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.p?/

Noun

ape

1. plural of aap

Corsican

Noun

ape

1. plural of apa

Finnish

(index ap)

Etymology

appaa +? -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??pe?/, [??pe?(?)]
• Rhymes: -?pe
• Syllabification: a?pe

Noun

ape

1. horse feed
2. (colloquial) food

Declension

Interlingua

Noun

ape (plural apes)

1. bee

Related terms

• apicultura

Italian

Etymology

From Latin apis, apem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.pe/
• Rhymes: -ape

Noun

ape f (plural api)

1. (entomology) bee

   Synonym: pecchia

2. (colloquial) honeybee

   Synonyms: ape da miele, ape domestica

Related terms

Further reading

• ape on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Latin

Verb

ape

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ap?

References

• ape in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Mauritian Creole

Alternative forms

• pe

Etymology

From French après. Compare Haitian Creole ap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(a)pe/

Verb

ape (medial form ape)

1. (auxiliary) Used to indicate present progressive tense or the continuous tense in general, commonly shortened to "pe" in speech.

Related terms

• ti ape

Middle English

Alternative forms

• eape, aape

Etymology

From Old English apa, from Proto-West Germanic *ap?, from Proto-Germanic *apô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?p(?)/

Noun

ape (plural apes or apen)

1. An ape or monkey; a simian creature.
2. A deceiver; a conman or charlatan.
3. A gullible or foolish person.

Descendants

• English: ape
• Scots: ape, aip

References

• “?pe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.

Neapolitan

Noun

ape

1. plural of apa

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?pe/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse api.

Noun

ape f or m (definite singular apa or apen, indefinite plural aper, definite plural apene)

1. ape, monkey

Related terms

• apekatt
• primat

Etymology 2

Verb

ape (imperative ap, present tense aper, passive apes, simple past apa or apet or apte, past participle apa or apet or apt, present participle apende)

1. to ape, mimic or imitate.

References

• “ape” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse api.

Noun

ape m (definite singular apen, indefinite plural apar, definite plural apane)

ape f (definite singular apa, indefinite plural aper, definite plural apene)

1. ape, monkey

Related terms

• apekatt
• primat

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• apa

Verb

ape (present tense apar or aper, past tense apa or apte, past participle apa or apt, passive infinitive apast, present participle apande, imperative ap)

1. to ape, mimic or imitate.

References

• “ape” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ape]

Noun

ape f pl

1. plural of ap?

English

Alternative forms

• Australopith

Noun

australopith (plural australopiths)

1. (anthropology, paleontology) Any of the hominids of the extinct genus Australopithecus.

   • The limb bones indicate A. garhi had small stature like earlier australopiths.

   • 2008, Rob DeSalle, Ian Tattersall, Human Origins: What Bones And Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves, page 118,

     Most authorities would nowadays concur that the australopiths were generally committed to habitats with at least some trees, to which they were more or less tied for sleeping and for shelter from predators during the day, as well as for a large part of their sustenance.

Synonyms

• (any member of Australopithecus): australopithecine (depending on the classification scheme used)

Translations

Adjective

australopith (comparative more australopith, superlative most australopith)

1. (anthropology, paleontology) Of or pertaining to the hominids of the extinct genus Australopithecus.