different between tapes vs trapes

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?ps

Noun

tapes

1. plural of tape

Verb

tapes

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tape

Anagrams

• Pesta, aspet, paste, pates, peats, pâtés, sepat, septa, septa-, spate, speat, stape, tepas

Catalan

Noun

tapes

1. plural of tapa

Verb

tapes

1. second-person singular present indicative form of tapar

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

tapes

1. Plural form of tape

French

Verb

tapes

1. second-person singular present indicative of taper
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of taper

Anagrams

• pâtes, pâtés, pesât, pesta, pétas

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (táp?s, “carpet, rug”); see there for more.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ta.pe?s/, [?t?äpe?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ta.pes/, [?t???p?s]

Noun

tap?s m (genitive tap?tis); third declension

1. rug, carpet
2. tapestry, hanging

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• tap?te
• tap?tum
• tappetium

Descendants

References

• tapes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

Noun

tapes

1. plural of tape

Portuguese

Verb

tapes

1. second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of tapar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of tapar

Spanish

Verb

tapes

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of tapar.

English

Etymology 1

Obscure, as is common among colloquialisms. OED mentions possible association with Dutch trappen, to tread or stamp the foot, but objects that the connection is unconvincing.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

trapes (third-person singular simple present trapeses, present participle trapesing, simple past and past participle trapesed)

1. Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI

Noun

trapes (plural trapeses)

1. Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI

Etymology 2

See trape.

Noun

trapes

1. (seldom in use since about WWII, colloquial) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.

   • He found the sullen trapes / Possest with th' devil, worms, and claps.

   • 1715, John Gay, The What D'ye Call It

     From door to door I'd sooner whine and beg, / Than marry such a trapes.

   • 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame

     Since full each other station of renown, / Who would not be the greatest trapes in town?

Anagrams

• Paster, Pearts, paster, paters, petars, prates, pretas, repast, repats, retaps, tapers, treaps