different between ipe vs ope

English

Alternative forms

• ipé
• ipê

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese ipê

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?i.pe?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

ipe (countable and uncountable, plural ipes)

1. A type of wood of the genus Tabebuia, similar to teak, used for outdoor decking and furniture.

Synonyms

Common names include:

• amapa (Mexico),
• amata prieto,
• bethabara,
• Brazilian walnut,
• cortez (Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica),
• ebene vert,
• flor amarillo (Venezuela),
• greenhart* (Surinam),
• guayacan (Panama),
• guayacan polvillo (Colombia),
• ironwood,
• lapacho,
• madera negra (Ecuador),
• pau d’arco,
• tahuari (Peru),
• ipê (Brazil),
• ipê tabaco,
• lapacho negro (Paraguay, Argentina).

Anagrams

• EIP, EPI, Epi, IEP, P.E.I., PEI, PIE, Pei, epi, epi-, pie

Ainu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ì?pé/

Noun

ipe (Kana spelling ??)

1. food

   Synonym: aep

2. (botany) fruit, nut

Alternative forms

• ipehe

Derived terms

• itakipe (“meaning of a word”)

Verb

ipe (Kana spelling ??, plural ipepa)

1. (transitive) to eat

Synonyms

• e

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Cornish dialect word meaning an alley or narrow passage e.g. Tonkin's Ope

Etymology 2

Representing oh pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end (excrescent IPA^(key): /p/. Compare yep, yup, nope, and welp.

Interjection

ope

1. (Midwest) an exclamation of surprise; oops

Usage notes

Specific to the Midwestern United States but used elsewhere in American English.

Etymology 3

From Russian ?? (op), shortened form of Greek ??? (ópa).

Interjection

ope

1. (Midwest) an exclamation of surprise; oops

Etymology 4

From Middle English ope (“open”), shortened form of open, from Old English open (“open”). More at open.

Adjective

ope (comparative more ope, superlative most ope)

1. (now dialectal or poetic) Open. [from 13th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.6:

     Arriving there, as did by chaunce befall, / He found the gate wyde ope […].

   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act V, Scene V, verses 191-192:

     We are all weary — faint — set ope the doors —

     I will to bed! — To-morrow —

   • On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope.

Verb

ope (third-person singular simple present opes, present participle oping, simple past and past participle oped)

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To open.
   • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 2

     Ere I ope his letter, / I pray you, tell me how my good friend doth.

   • 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, scene 2 :

     The hour's now come, the very minute bids thee ope thine ear; obey and be attentive.

   • 1842, Robert Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin

     There came into many a burgher's pate / A text which says that heaven's gate / Opes to the rich at as easy rate / As the needle's eye takes a camel in!

Anagrams

• EPO, EoP, PEO, Poe, peo., poe, poë

Finnish

(index op)

Etymology

Shortened form of opettaja.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ope

1. (school, colloquial) teacher

Declension

Synonyms

• maikka
• opettaja

Latin

Noun

ope

1. ablative singular of ops

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

ope

1. neuter singular of open

Unami

Verb

ope inan (plural òpeyo)

1. third-person singular present active indicative inanimate of ope (“it is white”)

Related terms

• òpsu
• òpàn
• wèhènchiopànk
• òpànk

References

• Rementer, Jim; Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) , “ope”, in Leneaux, Grant; Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project