scape
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scape¹
- /ˈskeɪp/
Rhymes with -eɪp
Where it comes from
From Latin scāpus, from Doric Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos). Doublet of native English shaft.
noun scapes
- 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.
- The shaft of a column.
- The apophyge of a shaft.
scape²
- /ˈskeɪp/
Rhymes with -eɪp
Where it comes from
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 scapes · scaping · scaped
- To escape (someone or something). 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 scapes
- Escape. I spake of most disastrous chances, […] Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
- A means of escape; evasion.
- A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.
- A loose act of vice or lewdness. though I am not bookish, yyet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape
scape³
- /ˈskeɪp/
Rhymes with -eɪp
Where it comes from
Probably imitative.
noun scapes
- The cry of the snipe when flushed.
- The snipe itself.
Translations
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title = {scape},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/scape},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
