Etymology

From ape +‎ -erCategory:English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)#APER.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪpɚ/Category:English 2-syllable words#APERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#APER

Noun

aper (plural apers)Category:English lemmas#APERCategory:English nouns#APERCategory:English countable nouns#APERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#APERCategory:Pages with entries#APERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#APER

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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#APER

Anagrams

• Earp, Pera, Rape, pare, pear, prae-, præ-, rape, reap

Etymology

From Middle High GermanCategory:German terms inherited from Middle High German#APERCategory:German terms derived from Middle High German#APER āber, from Old High GermanCategory:German terms inherited from Old High German#APERCategory:German terms derived from Old High German#APER 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːpər/, [ˈʔaː.pɐ]Category:German 2-syllable words#APERCategory:German terms with IPA pronunciation#APER

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

  Category:German terms with audio pronunciation#APER

Adjective

aper (strong nominative masculine singular aperer, comparative aperer or aprer, superlative am apersten)Category:German lemmas#APERCategory:German adjectives#APERCategory:German entries with incorrect language header#APERCategory:Pages with entries#APERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#APER

1. (BavariaCategory:Bavarian German#APER, AustriaCategory:Austrian German#APER, SwitzerlandCategory:Switzerland German#APER) snowless

   Synonym: (general) schneefrei

Further reading

• “aper” in Duden online
• “aper” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Etymology

From Proto-ItalicCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic#APERCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic#APER *apros, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#APERCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#APER *h₁ep-r-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *eburaz, Proto-Slavic *veprь.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.pɛr]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#APERCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#APER
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.per]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#APERCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#APER

Noun

aper m (genitive aprī)Category:Latin lemmas#APERCategory:Latin nouns#APERCategory:Latin second declension nouns#APERCategory:Latin masculine nouns in the second declension#APERCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#APERCategory:Latin masculine nouns#APERCategory:Pages with entries#APERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#APER; second declension

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

References

• “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

Anagrams

• pēra
• prae

Noun

aper m or fCategory:Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms#APERCategory:Norwegian Bokmål noun forms#APERCategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#APERCategory:Pages with entries#APERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#APER

1. indefinite plural of ape

Verb

aperCategory:Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms#APERCategory:Norwegian Bokmål verb forms#APERCategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#APERCategory:Pages with entries#APERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#APER

1. present of ape

Alternative forms

• apar

Noun

aper m or fCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms#APERCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk noun forms#APERCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#APERCategory:Pages with entries#APERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#APER

1. indefinite feminine plural of ape