different between trape vs traps

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /t?æps/
• Rhymes: -æps

Noun

traps

1. plural of trap

Verb

traps

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

Anagrams

• S trap, parts, prats, rapts, sprat, strap, tarps