scape

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈskeɪp/ Rhymes: -eɪp === Etymology 1 === From Latin scāpus, from Doric Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos). Doublet of native English shaft. ==== Noun ==== scape (plural scapes) (botany) A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure. The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body). The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect. (architecture) The shaft of a column. (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English scapen (whence also atscapen and ofscapen (“to escape”)), formed by aphesis from escapen, ascapen (“to escape”). Compare also Old French scapper, a variant of Old French eschaper, formed via similar process. Doublet of escape and scarper. ==== Verb ==== scape (third-person singular simple present scapes, present participle scaping, simple past and past participle scaped) (transitive, archaic) To escape (someone or something). c. 1600, John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal, in Poems (1633) No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace / As I have seen in one autumnal face. / Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape, / This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape. ==== Noun ==== scape (plural scapes) (archaic) Escape. (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion. (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness. ==== Derived terms ==== === Etymology 3 === Probably imitative. ==== Noun ==== scape (plural scapes) The cry of the snipe when flushed. The snipe itself. === Anagrams === EAPCs, EPACs, Space, a-spec, aspec, capes, paces, space == Latin == === Noun === scāpe vocative singular of scāpus == Middle English == === Verb === scape (West Riding) alternative form of schapen == Old English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃɑː.pe/ === Noun === sċāpe n (West Saxon) dative singular of sċāp == Romanian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈskape] === Verb === scape third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of scăpa