loper

== English == === Etymology 1 === From lope (“to leap, to run”) + -er. ==== Noun ==== loper (plural lopers) One who or that which lopes; a runner; a leaper. (ropemaking) A swivel placed at one end of the ropewalk, with the whirl being at the opposite end. ===== Related terms ===== geländeläufer interloper landloper === Etymology 2 === From American Spanish lobo (“wolf”) (/ˈloβo/), reinterpreted as or conflated with loper (“one who lopes”); compare the alternative forms which reflect other re-interpretations and conflations. ==== Alternative forms ==== see list in loafer ==== Noun ==== loper (plural lopers) (Southwestern US dialects) A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf. ===== Usage notes ===== Often used in compound with "wolf": "loper wolf". ==== Further reading ==== Belford's Magazine, 1890, page 713: “It is the great gray wolf; called the "loper" wolf in Texas, not because of his gait, but because his Spanish name is "lobo," and has been slightly changed by certain frontier Americans […]” 1905, Jerome Constant Smiley, National Live Stock Association of the United States, Prose and Poetry of the Live Stock Industry of the United States: With Outlines of the Origin and Ancient History of Our Live Stock Animals, page 719: […] was the greatest pest of the country[,] the great gray wolf, otherwise known as the "timber wolf," the "buffalo wolf," the "loper wolf," the "loafer wolf," and the "lobo wolf." === Anagrams === lepro-, poler, prole == Afrikaans == === Etymology === From Dutch loper (“walker, runner, messenger, bishop (chess piece), carpet, master key, offshoot”), from Middle Dutch lopere (“runner, messenger, walker”). Equivalent to loop +‎ -er. === Pronunciation === === Noun === loper (plural lopers, diminutive lopertjie) (chess) bishop; chess piece that moves diagonally walker; someone who walks (archaic) runner; someone who runs or moves quickly (historical) messenger, that delivers messages by foot (botany) shoot or sprout that forms at the end of roots from which new shoots or sprouts develop (botany, uncommon) tendrils of creepers and vines used for support ==== Synonyms ==== (chess piece): biskop (messenger): boodskapper (tendril): rank ==== See also ==== == Dutch == === Etymology === From Middle Dutch lopere. Equivalent to lopen +‎ -er. In the chess sense, likely a semantic loan from German Läufer. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈloː.pər/ Hyphenation: lo‧per Rhymes: -oːpər === Noun === loper m (plural lopers, diminutive lopertje n) runner Synonyms: hardloper, renner somebody who walks a carpet rode loper — red carpet (chess) bishop Synonym: raadsheer master key Synonym: moedersleutel message runner, messager who runs on foot (archaic) shoot from the roots of a plant Synonym: uitloper ==== Derived terms ==== brandingloper marathonloper steenloper strandloper uitloper ==== Descendants ==== Afrikaans: loper Indonesian: loper Petjo: loper === See also === == Indonesian == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Dutch loper, from Middle Dutch lopere. === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈlopər/ [ˈlo.pər] Rhymes: -opər Syllabification: lo‧per === Noun === lopêr (colloquial) deliveryman, that delivers newspaper, and so on (chess) bishop: the chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English Synonyms: menteri, gajah, luncup A strip of fabric used to decorate or protect a table or dressing table. Synonym: taplak meja tamu ==== Related terms ==== === See also === === Further reading === “loper”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016