trappa

Faroese

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German trappe, from Old Saxon *trappa, from Proto-West Germanic *trappā.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈtɹaʰpːa]

Noun

trappa f (genitive singular trappu, plural trappur)

  1. stairs, stairway

Declension
Declension of trappa
f1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative trappa trappan trappur trappurnar
accusative trappu trappuna trappur trappurnar
dative trappu trappuni trappum trappunum
genitive trappu trappunnar trappa trappanna

French

Pronunciation

Verb

trappa

  1. third-person singular past historic of trapper

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Presumably related to Old English træppe (“trap, snare”) (whence English trap), possibly borrowed from Frankish *trappā (“staircase”).

Noun

trappa f (genitive trappae); first declension (Medieval Latin)[1]

  1. trap, pit

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative trappa trappae
Genitive trappae trappārum
Dative trappae trappīs
Accusative trappam trappās
Ablative trappā trappīs
Vocative trappa trappae

Derived terms
  • trappula, trapula

Descendants
  • Catalan: trapa
  • Old French: trape, trappe
  • Occitan: trapa

References
  1. Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “trappa”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1040

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

trappa m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of trapp

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

trappa f

  1. definite singular of trapp

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish trapa, trappa, borrowed from Middle Low German trappe, from Old Saxon *trappa, from Proto-West Germanic *trappā.

Pronunciation
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Noun

trappa c

  1. stairs, stairway

Declension
Declension of trappa 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative trappa trappan trappor trapporna
Genitive trappas trappans trappors trappornas

Descendants

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