apeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: āp, IPA^(key): /eɪp/
• 韻: -eɪp

語源 1

From Middle English ape, from 古期英語 apa (“ape, monkey”), from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô (“monkey, ape”), possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”), compare Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”), if the word originally referred to a "water sprite". Traditionally assumed to be an ancient loanword instead, ultimately probably from an unidentified non-Indo-European language of regions in Africa or Asia where monkeys are native. Cognate with Scots aip (“ape”), West Frisian aap (“ape”), Dutch aap (“monkey, ape”), Low German Ape (“ape”), German Affe (“monkey, ape”), Swedish apa (“monkey, ape”), Icelandic api (“ape”).

名詞

ape (複数形 apes)

1. A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
2. Any such primate other than a human.
3. (derogatory) An uncivilized person.
4. One who apes; a foolish imitator.

下位語

• (young または small): apeling, apelet (まれに)
• (female): apess (まれに)
• See also Thesaurus:ape

派生語

動詞

ape (三人称単数 現在形 apes, 現在分詞 aping または apeing, 過去形および過去分詞形 aped)

1. (intransitive) To behave like an ape.
2. (transitive) To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.
   • 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XXI, in Wuthering Heights‎^[1]:

     But there’s this difference; one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver.

   • 1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume 92, page 454:

     It is not conceived as a mere “aping” in externals nor as an enacting in the sense of assuming a foreign role.

   • 2010, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 180:

     Every year a paper or a book appears, bemoaning the fate of economics and complaining about its attempts to ape physics.

派生語

• aper

語源 2

Clipping of apeshit (“ape-shit (crazy)”).

形容詞

ape (not comparable)

1. (slang) Wild; crazy.

   We were ape over the new look.

   He went ape when he heard the bad news.

参考

• monkey
• troop (collective noun)
• Appendix: Animals

アナグラム

• EAP, EPA, PAE, PEA, Pae, Pea, pea

Latin

動詞

ape

1. second-person singular present active imperative of apō

参照

• “ape”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press