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語源

Alteration of loup, from Old Norse hlaupa (“to leap, jump”)^[1]. See leap. Cognate with German laufen (“walk, run”), Danish løbe, Dutch lopen (“walk, run”), Norwegian løpe (“run”). Doublet of leap.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ləʊp/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /loʊp/
• 韻: -əʊp
• Homophone: Lop

動詞

lope (三人称単数 現在形 lopes, 現在分詞 loping, 過去形および過去分詞形 loped)

1. To travel an easy pace with long strides.

   He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.

   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 5, in On the Road, Viking Press, OCLC 43419454, part 5:

     And as we waited in the car Victor got out and loped over to the house and said a few words to an old lady, […]

   • 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:

     “And the holidays?” Murgo proposed one evening as they loped down a bridlepath past lovers fondling in the grass. “Fun, are they? High living?”

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To jump, leap.
   • 1470–1485 (date produced)​, Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xxxv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book IX, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:

     And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver

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   • 1621-22, Thomas Middleton et al, The Spanish Gypsy

     he that lopes on the ropes

派生語

• loper

関連する語

• elope
• interlope

名詞

lope (複数形 lopes)

1. An easy pace with long strides.
   • 1931, Home Geographic Monthly (volumes 1-2, page 45)

     Hares have larger, leaner bodies, longer legs, and longer ears than the true rabbit. They also run with a lope instead of a hop. It is thought that they developed this more stream-lined body and swifter gait from running on the plains […]

参照

アナグラム

• LEPO, Pole, olpe, pleo-, pole