different between nape vs nucha

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?p/
• Rhymes: -e?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English nape, naape, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old French hanap (“goblet”), from Frankish *hnapp, from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz ( > Old English hnæpp, hnæp (“cup, bowl, goblet”)), as there is a hollow at the base of the skull.. More at nap.

Noun

nape (plural napes)

1. The back part of the neck.
2. (zoology) The part of a fish or bird immediately behind the head.

Synonyms

• nucha, nuchal (medicine)
• scruff, scruff of the neck
• withers (of a horse)

Translations

See also

• hindneck

Etymology 2

From Middle English nape, from Old French nape, nappe (“a cloth”), from Medieval Latin nappa, napa (“cloth, table-cloth, sheet”), alteration of Latin mappa (“a cloth, napkin, towel”). More at map, apron.

Noun

nape (plural napes)

1. (obsolete) A tablecloth.

Derived terms

• napkin
• nappie

Etymology 3

Short for napalm.

Noun

nape (uncountable)

1. (military, slang) Napalm.
   • 1986, Oliver Stone, Platoon (film script)

     RHAH: They got through Alpha Company! Anything behind you don't identify itself, blow it away. Two - air strike's coming in. They gonna lay snake and nape right on the perimeter so stay tight in your holes and don't leave 'em.

Verb

nape (third-person singular simple present napes, present participle naping, simple past and past participle naped)

1. (transitive, military, slang) To bombard with napalm.

References

Anagrams

• -pnea, Pena, neap, pane, pané, pean

Latin

Noun

n?pe

1. vocative singular of n?pus

Middle English

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Alternative forms

• naape

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na?p(?)/

Noun

nape (plural napys)

2. The nape; the neck's rear.
3. The nape of a fish; the part below a fish's head.

Derived terms

• napyn

Descendants

• English: nape

References

• “nap, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-30.

Etymology 2

From Old French nape, nappe, from Medieval Latin nappa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na?p(?)/

Noun

nape

2. (rare except in compound words) tablecloth

Related terms

• napkyn
• naperye

Descendants

• English: nape (obsolete)

References

• “n?pe, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-30.

Etymology 3

Verb

nape

1. Alternative form of nappen

Etymology 4

Verb

nape

1. Alternative form of napyn

Old French

Etymology

From Latin mappa.

Noun

nape f (oblique plural napes, nominative singular nape, nominative plural napes)

1. table cloth

Descendants

• English: nape, napkin
• French: nappe

See also

• table

English

Etymology

From Middle English nucha, nuche, nuca, nuka, nuke (“spinal cord”), borrowed from Medieval Latin nucha (“spinal cord; nape of the neck”).. Doublet of nuque.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?nju?k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n(j)uk?/
• Hyphenation: nu?cha

Noun

nucha (plural nuchae)

1. (anatomy, obsolete) The spinal cord.
2. (anatomy, zoology, dated, rare) The back of the neck, the nape; of an animal: the back of the head or the portion of the body behind the head.

Alternative forms

• nuke

Derived terms

• nuchal
• nuchal ligament

References

Anagrams

• chaun

Latin

Alternative forms

• nucra, nocra

Etymology

From a mix of Arabic ??????? (nu???, “spinal marrow”) and ???????? (nuqra, “hollow of the neck”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?nu.k?a/, [?n?k?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?nu.ka/, [?nu?k?]

Noun

nucha f (genitive nuchae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) nape

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? Catalan: nuca
• ? Middle English: nucha, nuche, nuca, nuka
  • English: nucha
• ? Old French: nuche
  • Middle French: nuque, nuche
    • ? English: nuque
    • French: nuque
• ? Italian: nuca
• ? Portuguese: nuca
• ? Spanish: nuca

Further reading

• Hyrtl, Joseph (1879) Das Arabische und Hebräische in der Anatomie?^[1] (in German), Wien: Wilhelm Braumüller, pages 188–193