different between raphe vs rapee

English

Alternative forms

• rhaphe

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin raph?, from Ancient Greek ???? (rhaph?, “seam; suture”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?.fi/
• Rhymes: -e?fi

Noun

raphe (plural raphae or raphes)

1. (anatomy) A seamlike ridge or furrow on an organ, bodily tissue, or other structure, typically marking the line where two halves or sections fused in the embryo.
   1. The connecting ridge between the two halves of the medulla oblongata or the tegmentum of the midbrain.
2. (botany) The part of the stalk of an anatropous ovary that is united in growth to the outside covering and forms a ridge along the body of the ovule.
3. (botany) A longitudinal median groove in the valve of many diatoms.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “raphe”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “raphe”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Harpe, Phrae, harpe, hepar, phare

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (rhaph?, “seam; suture”).

Pronunciation

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ra.fe/, [?r??f?]

Noun

raph? f (genitive raph?s); first declension (New Latin)

1. (anatomy, botany) raphe

Inflection

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

Descendants

• ? English: raphe
• ? French: raphé

English

Etymology

rape +? -ee

Noun

rapee (plural rapees)

1. A victim of rape.
   • 1983, Medical Correctional Association, Corrective and social psychiatry (volume 29)

     Crime rates are reported on the basis of reported crimes; however, it was estimated that about 80% of rapes go unreported because the rapee usually wishes to avoid the humiliation of having to describe the event in detail to the police […]

   • 1986, Germaine Greer, The madwoman's underclothes: essays and occasional writings 1968-85

     Nightmares, depression, pathological shyness, inability to leave the house, terror of darkness, all have been known to develop in otherwise healthy women who have been raped. Malinowski was writing from the point of view of the rapee.

   • 1998, Jonathan Moore, Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention (page 274)

     The web of social and sexual interactions between military and civil populations is dense and intricate, and HIV travels rapidly through its connecting threads: to wives, girlfriends, sexual partners, and rapees, and from them to the soldiers.

Translations

Anagrams

• Paree, Perea, peare, perea, reape

Spanish

Verb

rapee

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rapear.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rapear.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of rapear.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rapear.