different between tortoise vs kappa

English

Etymology

From Middle English tortuse, tortuce, tortuge, from Medieval Latin tortuca, of uncertain origin. May be from Late Latin tartar?cha, from tartar?chus, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (tartaroûkhos, “holder of Tartaros, Tartarus, the land of the dead in ancient stories”), because it used to be thought that tortoises and turtles came from the underworld and they were commonly paired with such infernal beasts; or from Latin tortus (“twisted”). Displaced native Old English byrdling.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t???.t?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??.t?s/
  • (UK, also) IPA^(key): /?t???t??s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?s

Noun

tortoise (plural tortoises)

1. Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly Canada, US) or the order Testudines (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India), whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.

   Synonym: (obsolete) shellpad

Usage notes

Differences exist in usage of the common terms turtle, tortoise, and terrapin, depending on the variety of English being used. In American usage, turtle is often a general term; tortoise is used only in reference to terrestrial turtles or, more narrowly, only those members of Testudinidae, the family of modern land tortoises; and terrapin may refer to turtles that are small and live in fresh and brackish water.

British and Commonwealth usage, by contrast, tends not to use turtle as a generic term for all members of the order but instead as a synonym for sea turtle specifically, and also applies the term tortoises broadly to all land-dwelling members of the order Testudines, regardless of whether they are actually members of the family Testudinidae.

Land tortoises are not native to Australia, yet traditionally freshwater turtles have been called tortoises in Australia.

Derived terms

• pancake tortoise
• tortoise-like, tortoiselike
• tortoise shell, tortoise-shell

Translations

See also

• terrapin
• turtle

Further reading

• tortoise on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• rootiest

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæp?/
• Rhymes: -æp?

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (káppa).

Noun

kappa (plural kappas)

1. The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet.
2. (finance) A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset.

Synonyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): tau, vega

Hypernyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Japanese ?? (kappa, “water imp”).

Noun

kappa (plural kappas)

1. (Japanese mythology) A tortoise-like creature.

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?kap.p?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?kap.pa/

Noun

kappa f (plural kappes)

1. Kappa; the Greek letter ? (lowercase ?).

Czech

Noun

kappa n

1. kappa

Synonyms

• kapa n

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?p??/, [?k?p??]
• Rhymes: -?p??
• Syllabification: kap?pa

Etymology 1

Borrowing from Germanic, not clearly dateable: compare Old Saxon skap (“a measure”), Old High German scaf (“vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *skapaz, which is possibly a derivative of *skapjan? (“to shape”) (compare also *skappij? in Danish skæppe, Old Norse skeppa, Estonian dialectal käpp (“measure”)). Cognate within Finnic with Estonian kapp, Ingrian kappa, Karelian kappa, Ludian kappe, nominally reconstructible as Proto-Finnic *kappa.

Noun

kappa

1. An old unit of measure for volume of dry things, still used for potatoes in market squares. A modern kappa is equal to 5 liters (iso kappa), or 2 liters (pikku kappa), but during the period of autonomy under Russia it was 1/30 of tynnyri (“barrel”) or 5.4961 liters, and before that under the Swedish rule it was 1/32 of tynnyri or 4.58 liters. A further complication is that Swedish and Russian barrels were not of equal size.

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: kappe

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Swedish kappa, from Medieval Latin cappa.

Noun

kappa

1. pelmet
2. women's overcoat

Declension

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (káppa).

Noun

kappa

1. kappa (tenth letter of Greek alphabet)

Declension

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Japanese ???.

Noun

kappa

1. (Japanese mythology) kappa (mythical creature)

Declension

References

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, ?ISBN

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.pa/

Noun

kappa m (plural kappa)

1. kappa (Greek letter)

Further reading

• “kappa” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (káppa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?p??]
• Hyphenation: kap?pa
• Rhymes: -p?

Noun

kappa (plural kappák)

1. kappa (Greek letter)

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (káppa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kap.pa/
• Rhymes: -appa
• Hyphenation: kàp?pa
• Homophone: cappa

Noun

kappa m or f (invariable)

1. The name of the Greek-script letter ?/?; kappa
2. The name of the Latin-script letter K.; kay

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon, zeta

Japanese

Romanization

kappa

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• kappen

Noun

kappa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of kappe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

kappa n

1. definite plural of kapp

Verb

kappa (present tense kappar, past tense kappa, past participle kappa, passive infinitive kappast, present participle kappande, imperative kapp)

1. to cut, chop something off quickly in one go

Alternative forms

• kappe

Etymology 2

Noun

kappa f

1. (non-standard since 2012) Alternative form of kappe
2. definite singular of kappe

Etymology 3

Verb

kappa (present tense kappar, past tense kappa, past participle kappa, passive infinitive kappast, present participle kappande, imperative kapp)

1. to compete in something

Alternative forms

• kappe

Etymology 4

Noun

kappa m (definite singular kappaen, indefinite plural kappaer or kappaar, definite plural kappaene or kappaane)

1. kappa, a Greek letter

Etymology 5

Noun

kappa m (definite singular kappaen, indefinite plural kappaer or kappaar, definite plural kappaene or kappaane)

1. kappa a Japanese mythological creature

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kapa/, [?ka.pa]

Noun

kappa f (plural kappas)

1. kappa; the Greek letter ?, ?

   Synonym: cappa

Swedish

Etymology 1

According to NE: From Old Swedish kappa, from Medieval Latin cappa.

According to SAOB online: From Old Swedish kappa, from Middle Low German kappe, ultimately from Late Latin cappa.

According to Svensk etymologisk ordbok: From Old Swedish kappa, from Middle Low German kappe, borrowed from a Romance language, from Medieval Latin cappa, byform of c?pa, probably shortenings of a word derived from Latin caput (“head”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?p?a/

Noun

kappa c

1. pelmet
2. women's overcoat

Declension

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ????? (káppa).

Noun

kappa n

1. kappa (Greek letter)

Declension

References

• kappa in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).

• kappa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• kappa in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)