scăpa

== Romanian == === Etymology === Inherited from Vulgar Latin *excappāre, a verb based on Late Latin cappa (“cloak”). Compare Aromanian scap, scãpari. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /skəˈpa/ Rhymes: -a Hyphenation: scă‧pa === Verb === a scăpa (third-person singular present scapă, past participle scăpat, third-person subjunctive scape) 1st conjugation (transitive) to drop (let fall by mistake) (intransitive) to fall down from one’s hand [with dative] (intransitive, relatively informal) to rescue oneself, get away from danger a scăpa cu viață ― to escape with one’s life (transitive, now informal) to rescue, get out, help out (intransitive, now informal) to escape, get free, get away (intransitive or reflexive, informal) to no longer need to deal with something unpleasant, whether past or potential [with de] (intransitive, informal, figurative) to escape someone, to go unnoticed, to go under one’s radar [with dative] (reflexive or intransitive, informal) to get rid of something or someone [with de ‘of’] (transitive, informal) to rid someone of something or someone [with de ‘of’] (intransitive with dative or transitive; of countable manifestations of emotions) to (be) let out, to manifest (intransitive, informal, of things one isn’t supposed to say) to slip out [with dative] (chiefly reflexive, often catenative, informal) to let slip (say something one shouldn’t have) (reflexive, informal, often euphemistic) to be unable to contain one’s excretion, especially under duress (transitive, of an opportunity or occasion) to miss, fail to profit from (transitive, informal, now rare) to miss (not reach in time) Synonyms: pierde, rata (transitive, rare) to relax and lower a body part (intransitive, now rare) to flee (transitive, regional, agriculture) to neglect to perform an operation on a crop and thus spoil its output (impersonal, catenative, regional) to feel like [with dative] Synonym: îi veni ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== scăpare scăpat scăpa din vedere scăpa printre degete === Further reading === “scăpa”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026