mappa

Pronunciation

• Homophones: mappas, mappât

Verb

mappa

1. third-person singular past historic of mapper

Etymology

From Danish mappe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmahpa/
• Rhymes: -ahpa

Noun

mappa f (genitive singular möppu, nominative plural möppur)

1. folder, file
2. (computing) folder, directory

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmap.pa/, [ˈmäppä]
• Rhymes: -appa
• Stress: màppa
• Hyphenation: map‧pa

Etymology 1

From Latin mappa, of possibly Semitic origin.

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Anagrams

• pampa

Etymology

Believed to be from a Semitic source, variously claimed as Phoenician or Punic (the latter by Quintilian). Compare Modern Hebrew מפה‎ (mapá, “a map; a cloth”) (shortened from menaphah, a fluttering banner, streaming cloth).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmap.pa/

Noun

mappa f (genitive mappae); first declension

1. A napkin.
2. (racing) A starting signal.
3. (New Latin) A map

References

• mappa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mappa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mappa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mappa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• mappa in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mappa in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Noun

mappa m (plural mappas)

1. Obsolete spelling of mapa

Verb

mappa (present mappar, preterite mappade, supine mappat, imperative mappa)

1. (colloquial, computer science) to map
2. (slang, geography) to map