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harpe

See also: Harpe, harpé, and harpë

English

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Etymology 1

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From Ancient Greek ἅρπη (hárpē).

Noun

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harpe (plural harpes)

  1. (Ancient Greece) A type of curved weapon or implement, variously described as a sickle, a pruning hook, or a curved sword like a scimitar. In later depictions it became a combination of a straight sword on one side and a curved blade on the other.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English harpe.

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harpe (plural harpes)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of harp

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Danish harpæ, from Old Norse harpa (“harp”), from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ. Compare Norwegian Bokmål harpe, Swedish and Icelandic harpa, German Harfe, Dutch and English harp.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /harpə/, [ˈhɑːb̥ə]

Noun

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harpe c (singular definite harpen, plural indefinite harper)

  1. (music) harp

Declension

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Declension of harpe
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative harpe harpen harper harperne
genitive harpes harpens harpers harpernes

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French

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Etymology

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From Late Latin harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

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Noun

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harpe f (plural harpes)

  1. (music) harp (musical instrument)

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Verb

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harpe

  1. inflection of harper:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek ἅρπη (hárpē, “bird of prey, falcon, scimitar”).

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Noun

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harpē f (genitive harpēs); first declension

  1. a curved sickle-shaped sword, scimitar
  2. bird of prey, hawk, falcon, tiercel or goshawk (falco gentilis)

Declension

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First-declension noun (Greek-type).

singular plural
nominative harpē harpae
genitive harpēs harpārum
dative harpae harpīs
accusative harpēn harpās
ablative harpē harpīs
vocative harpē harpae

Descendants

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  • Catalan: arpa
  • Italian: arpa
  • Occitan: arpa
  • Sicilian: arpa

References

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  • “harpe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “harpe”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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From Old Dutch *harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

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harpe f

  1. harp, lyre

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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harpe (plural harpes)

  1. (music) harp

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Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French harpe, from Late Latin harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

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harpe f (plural harpes)

  1. (Jersey) harp

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ. Compare with Danish harpe, Swedish and Icelandic harpa, German Harfe, Dutch and English harp.

Noun

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harpe f or m (definite singular harpa or harpen, indefinite plural harper, definite plural harpene)

  1. (music) a harp

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

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Noun

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harpe f (definite singular harpa, indefinite plural harper, definite plural harpene)

  1. (music) harp

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Old French

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Etymology

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From Frankish *harpō, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

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harpe oblique singular, f (oblique plural harpes, nominative singular harpe, nominative plural harpes)

  1. harp
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Romanian

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harpe f pl

  1. plural of harpă

Walloon

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French harpe

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Noun

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harpe f (plural harpes)

  1. (music) harp
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