different between trape vs trake

English

Etymology

Perhaps via Medieval Latin *trappa, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *trap-, from Proto-Indo-European *dreb-, from *der- (“to walk, step”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e?p/

Noun

trape (plural trapes)

1. (obsolete) A messy or untidy woman.
   • 1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:

     Hard was his fate in this I own, / Nor will I for the trapes atone; / Indeed to guess I am not able, / What made her thus inexorable […]

Verb

trape (third-person singular simple present trapes, present participle traping, simple past and past participle traped)

1. (intransitive) To drag.
2. (intransitive) To run about idly or like a slattern.

Anagrams

• Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, treap

Old French

Alternative forms

• trappe

Etymology

Frankish *trappa (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *trap-, *tramp- (“to step”), from Proto-Indo-European *dremb- (“to run”). More at English trap.

Noun

trape f (oblique plural trapes, nominative singular trape, nominative plural trapes)

1. trap (device design to ensnare or trap)
2. hiding place

Descendants

• French: trappe

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (trape)
• trappe on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Spanish

Etymology

From French draper. Assimilated to trapo.

Noun

trape m (plural trapes)

1. (dated) intermediate fabric used to make drapery

English

Noun

trake (plural trakes)

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of trach
   • 2001, John Barnes and Buzz Aldrin, The Return, Tor/Forge, ?ISBN, page 41,

     "[…] I'll do a trake on him, right now, because his breathing isn't good and I think there's a crushing injury to the neck. […]"

   • 2004, Christopher Young, Anno Domini Book III Amalgamation, Lulu Press, Inc., ?ISBN, page 150,

     "[…] She'll never be able to talk again, and for now she is breathing out of a trake."

   • 2005, Isaiah Baity, Jr., Beyond the Mark of Cain, Trafford Publishing, ?ISBN, page 60,

     Over time my uncle continued to slowly get better but my aunt was concerned about the tracheotomy hole (trake) in his throat. […] ¶ […] My aunt anxiously tried to instruct her to put the trake back in the hole in his throat.

Anagrams

• Akter, kerat-, taker, tarek

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

trake m (definite singular trakeen, indefinite plural trakeer, definite plural trakeene)

1. alternative spelling of traké

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

trake m (definite singular trakeen, indefinite plural trakear, definite plural trakeane)

1. alternative spelling of traké