tope

See also: Tope, topé, and -tope

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps from an alteration of top (off), or perhaps borrowed from French toper.

Verb

tope (third-person singular simple present topes, present participle toping, simple past and past participle toped)

  1. (archaic) To drink excessively; to get drunk.
Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

tope (plural topes)

  1. A small, grey, European shark, Galeorhinus galeus, that has rough skin and a long snout.
Translations

Etymology 3

From Tamil.

Noun

tope (plural topes)

  1. (India) A grove of trees.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Whitworth to this entry?)
    • 2011, Chandra Mallampalli, Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India
      In addition, a memorandum was kept containing receipts and issues of toddy drawn at a toddy tope.

Etymology 4

Probably from Pali, ultimately cognate to stupa.

Noun

tope (plural topes)

  1. A mound-like Buddhist sepulchre, or memorial monument, often erected over a relic; a stupa.

Anagrams

Hoyahoya

Noun

tope

  1. meat

Reference

Italian

Noun

tope f pl

  1. plural of topa

Anagrams

Spanish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic top, whence topar.

Noun

tope m (plural topes)

  1. butt, end, butt end
  2. top, limit
  3. stop, catch, snag (also figuratively)
  4. collision
  5. quarrel, fight
  6. reinforcement
  7. (railway) buffer, bumper
  8. (nautical) masthead, lookout
  9. (Mexico) speed bump
  10. (Costa Rica, Nicaragua) equestrian parade usually held on the first day of a festival

Synonyms

  • borda f (Honduras)
  • túmulo m (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras)

Derived terms

References

“tope” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Adverb

tope

  1. (colloquial, Spain) really
    Es tope feo
    He's dead ugly

Verb

tope

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of topar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of topar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of topar.

Swahili

Noun

tope (ma class, plural matope)

  1. mud

West Flemish

Noun

tope f (plural toopn, diminutive tooptje)

  1. vole
  2. shrew

Alternative forms

  • tolpe
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