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English

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Etymology

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    From ape + -er.

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    Noun

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    aper (plural apers)

    1. Someone who apes something
      • 1908, Rupert Sargent Holland, Builders of United Italy, page 175:
        Valerio ridiculed the proposal to his friends and called Cavour an aper of English customs.

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    German

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    Etymology

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    From Middle High German āber, from Old High German ābar (sunny, warm, dry), from ā- (from, away, prefix) + bar (bare), likely via a defunct verb *ābarēn, *ābarōn (to lay bare, expose). Alternatively, from a verb *āberan (to not bear, not carry). Sense likely influenced by unrelated Latin aprīcus due to superficial similarity of form and meaning.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈaːpər/, [ˈʔaː.pɐ]
    • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

    Adjective

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    aper (strong nominative masculine singular aperer, comparative aperer or aprer, superlative am apersten)

    1. (Bavaria, Austria, Switzerland) snowless
      Synonym: (general) schneefrei

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    Further reading

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    • aper” in Duden online
    • aper”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[1] (in German)

    Latin

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    aper (a wild boar)

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    From Proto-Italic *apros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-r-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *eburaz, Proto-Slavic *veprь.

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    Noun

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    aper m (genitive aprī); second declension

    1. a wild boar
    2. (figuratively) a standard of the Roman legions

    Declension

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    Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

    singular plural
    nominative aper aprī
    genitive aprī aprōrum
    dative aprō aprīs
    accusative aprum aprōs
    ablative aprō aprīs
    vocative aper aprī

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    Descendants

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    • Sardinian: apru
    • Italian: apro

    References

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    • aper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • aper”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • aper”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • aper”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • aper”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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    Norwegian Bokmål

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    Noun

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    aper m or f

    1. indefinite plural of ape

    Verb

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    aper

    1. present of ape

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    Noun

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    aper m or f

    1. indefinite feminine plural of ape