clepe

== English == === Alternative forms === cleep, clip clep, clip, claip, clype (Scotland) === Etymology === From Middle English clepen, clepien, from Old English cleopian, clipian (“to speak, cry out, call, summon, invoke, cry to, implore”), from Proto-Germanic *klipōną (“to ring, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *gal- (“to sound”). Cognate with Old Frisian klippa, kleppa (“to ring”), Dutch kleppen (“to toll, chatter”), Middle Low German kleppen (“to strike, sound”), Middle Low German kleperen (“to rattle”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kliːp/ Rhymes: -iːp === Verb === clepe (third-person singular simple present clepes, present participle cleping, simple past cleped or clept, past participle cleped or clept or yclept) (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To give a call; cry out; appeal. (transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call; call upon; cry out to. (transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call to oneself; invite; summon. (transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call; call by the name of; name. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal, often with 'on') To tell lies about; inform against (someone). (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To be loquacious; tattle; gossip. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To report; relate; tell. ==== Usage notes ==== The verb is obsolete, except in certain dialects or when used in the past participle yclept which is sometimes used as a deliberate archaism, or as an idiomatic set phrase: aptly yclept. ==== Synonyms ==== (call by the name of): designate, dub, name; see also Thesaurus:denominate (tell lies about; inform against): grass, snitch; see also Thesaurus:rat out (be loquacious; tattle; gossip): blab; see also Thesaurus:gossip or Thesaurus:chatter ==== Derived terms ==== beclepe === Noun === clepe (plural clepes) (now chiefly dialectal) A cry; an appeal; a call. === Anagrams === cleep == Latin == === Verb === clepe second-person singular present active imperative of clepō == Middle English == === Verb === clepe alternative form of clepen == Spanish == === Etymology === Borrowed from French crêpe. Doublet of crespo, crep, and crepa. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈklepe/ [ˈkle.pe] Rhymes: -epe Syllabification: cle‧pe === Noun === clepe m (plural clepes) (Louisiana) crepe == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English clepen, from Old English clipian, from Proto-Germanic *klipōną (“to ring, sound”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kliːp/ === Verb === clepe (past participle ee-clepèd) to call, to name === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 30