laps

• enPR: lăps, IPA^(key): /læps/
• Homophones: lapse, Lapps
• Rhymes: -æps

laps

1. plural of lap

laps

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lap

• ALPs, APLS, APLs, ASPL, Alps, PALS, PALs, PLAs, Pals, Plas, SPLA, alps, pals, salp, slap

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin lapis.

laps m (indefinite plural lapsa, definite singular lapsi, definite plural lapsat)

1. pencil

From Proto-Albanian *lapitja, close to Greek λαπαρός (laparós, “weak”), λαπάζω (lapázo, “to weaken”).[1]

laps (first-person singular past tense lapsa, participle lapsur)

1. to wear out, tire

From Proto-Albanian *laubitja, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, related to Sanskrit लुभ्यति (lúbhyati, “to wish”), Proto-Slavic *l'ubiti (“to love”).[2] Ultimately a doublet of lyp.

laps (first-person singular past tense lapsa, participle lapsur)

1. to wish, want

• IPA^(key): /laps/, [lɑb̥s]

laps c (singular definite lapsen, plural indefinite lapse)

1. fop, dandy (a man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance)
2. a shabby man [from 1990]

• lapset ("foppish", "shabby")

From Proto-Finnic *lapci. Cognate with Finnish lapsi.

laps (genitive lapse, partitive last)

1. child
2. someone's child

• lapsik
• esiklaps
• lastehaigla

• IPA^(key): /laps/

Borrowed from Latin lapsus (“fall”). Doublet of lapsus.

laps m (plural laps)

1. lapse, length (of time)
   • 2007, Joseph Combet, Histoire de la ville et du canton d'Uzerche, p. 128

     […] mais enfin, en payant ces charges et ces rentes, les personnes en faveur desquelles furent faites les concessions, devinrent propriétaires et seigneurs utils. Ainsi s'évanouirent, après un laps d'environ quatre siècles et demi, les menaces et les imprécations fulminées par l'évêque […]

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   un laps de vingt secondes ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   un laps de quelques heures ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   un laps de plusieurs mois ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• Almost always followed by a complement centered on the concept of time, as in the phrase laps de temps (“a period of time”), or units of time like jours (“days”) or années (“years”).

• laps de temps

From Latin lapsus (“fallen”).

laps (invariable)

1. (archaic) apostate of Catholicism

• laps et relaps

• “laps”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• lapsi

From Proto-Finnic *lapci. Cognates include Finnish lapsi and Estonian laps.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑps/, [ˈɫɑps̠]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑps/, [ˈɫɑpʃ]
• Rhymes: -ɑps
• Hyphenation: laps

laps

1. child
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 34:

     Keitettii se lapsille.

     The children stewed it.

   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 3:

     Minen peräst oppii männöö
     nyt näin paljo lapsia ?

     Why do now so many
     children go to school?

• (diminutive) lapsukkain

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 249