Gestapo
See also: gestapo
English
Proper noun
Gestapo
- (historical, Nazism) The secret police of Nazi Germany.
- 1938, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 11, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg:
- Fortunately this was Spain and not Germany. The Spanish secret police had some of the spirit of the Gestapo, but not much of its competence.
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- (informal, derogatory, by extension) Any militant oppressive force or group.
- 2009, Ian Dunbar, More Than a Puff of Smoke (page 230)
- Men were frog-marched by the feminist Gestapo into accepting an alien 'politically correct' agenda.
- 2009, Ian Dunbar, More Than a Puff of Smoke (page 230)
Translations
the secret police of Nazi Germany
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Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡestɑpo/, [ˈɡe̞s̠t̪ɑpo̞]
- Rhymes: -estɑpo
- Syllabification(key): Ges‧ta‧po
Declension
| Inflection of Gestapo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Gestapo | — | |
| genitive | Gestapon | — | |
| partitive | Gestapoa | — | |
| illative | Gestapoon | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Gestapo | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Gestapo | — |
| gen. | Gestapon | ||
| genitive | Gestapon | — | |
| partitive | Gestapoa | — | |
| inessive | Gestapossa | — | |
| elative | Gestaposta | — | |
| illative | Gestapoon | — | |
| adessive | Gestapolla | — | |
| ablative | Gestapolta | — | |
| allative | Gestapolle | — | |
| essive | Gestapona | — | |
| translative | Gestapoksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Gestapotta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
| Possessive forms of Gestapo (type valo) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | Gestaponi | Gestapomme |
| 2nd person | Gestaposi | Gestaponne |
| 3rd person | Gestaponsa | |
German
Etymology
Contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”). The predominant pronunciation with /st/ is from reading out the form as one word and thus to some extent a spelling pronunciation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡeˈstaːpo/, [ɡeˈstaː.po], [ɡə-], [ɡɛsˈtaːpo]
- IPA(key): /ɡeˈʃtaːpo/ (fairly rare)
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Proper noun
die Gestapo f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Gestapo)
- (historical) Gestapo
Declension
Related terms
- Stapo
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from German Gestapo, a contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɛsˈta.pɔ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -apɔ
- Syllabification: Ges‧ta‧po
Declension
Indeclinable
or
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ɡesˈta.pu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ɡeʃˈta.pu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ɡesˈta.po/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɡɛʃˈta.pu/
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