different between tope vs tepe

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /to?p/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??p/
• Rhymes: -??p
• Homophone: taupe

Etymology 1

Alteration of obsolete top (“to drink”), as in top (off).

Verb

tope (third-person singular simple present topes, present participle toping, simple past and past participle toped)

1. (archaic) To drink excessively; to get drunk.

Derived terms

• toper

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

tope (plural topes)

1. A small, grey, European shark, Galeorhinus galeus, that has rough skin and a long snout.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Tamil.

Noun

tope (plural topes)

1. (India) A grove of trees.

Etymology 4

Probably from Pali. Doublet of stupa.

Noun

tope (plural topes)

1. A mound-like Buddhist sepulchre, or memorial monument, often erected over a relic; a stupa.

Anagrams

• Pote, poet, pote, poët

Hoyahoya

Noun

tope

1. meat

References

• Philip Carr, Hoyahoya organised phonology data (2006)

Italian

Noun

tope f pl

1. plural of topa

Anagrams

• peto, poté

Middle English

Noun

tope

1. Alternative form of top

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t?pi/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?t?p?/
• Hyphenation: to?pe

Noun

tope m (plural topes)

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Serbo-Croatian

Verb

tope (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of topiti

Spanish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic top, whence topar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tope/, [?t?o.pe]
• Hyphenation: to?pe

Noun

tope m (plural topes)

1. butt, end, butt end
2. top, limit
3. stop, catch, snag (also figuratively)
4. collision
5. quarrel, fight
6. reinforcement
7. (railway) buffer, bumper
8. (nautical) masthead, lookout
9. (Mexico) speed bump

   Synonym: (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) túmulo

10. (Costa Rica, Nicaragua) equestrian parade usually held on the first day of a festival

Synonyms

• borda f (Honduras)

Derived terms

• a tope

References

“tope” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Adverb

tope

1. (colloquial, Spain) really

Verb

tope

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

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

tope (ma class, plural matope)

1. mud

West Flemish

Etymology

Noun

tope f (plural toopn, diminutive tooptje)

1. vole
2. shrew

Alternative forms

• tolpe

English

Etymology

From Turkish tepe.

Noun

tepe (plural tepes)

1. (archaeology) A hill, a tell.

References

Anagrams

• PETE, Peet, Pete, teep

Latin

Verb

tep?

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

Olo

Noun

tepe

1. water

References

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

Ometepec Nahuatl

Noun

tepe

1. mountain.

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

tepe (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person singular present of tepsti

Swahili

Etymology

From English tape.

Pronunciation

Noun

tepe (n class, plural tepe)

1. braid, tape

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (tepe, “crown of the head, apex, summit, mountain peak, hill”), from Proto-Turkic *tepö, *töpö (“hill, top; top of head”). Cognate with Old Turkic ????????????????? (töpü, “height”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (töpü, “top of head”), Karakhanid [script needed] (töpü, “summit of a mountain, hill, crown of a head”), Yakut ???? (töbö, “top, summit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te?p?/
• Hyphenation: te?pe

Noun

tepe (definite accusative tepeyi, plural tepeler)

1. hill
2. top, peak
3. apex, vertex
4. crest, crown

Declension

Related terms

• tepeli
• tepesiz
• tepelik

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) , “töpü:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 436