laps

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: lăps, IPA^(key): /læps/
• Homophones: lapse, Lapps

laps

1. plural of lap

laps

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of lap

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

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin lapis.

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

1. pencil

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

laps (aorist 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 (aorist 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, kid

• lapsik
• esiklaps
• lastehaigla

• IPA^(key): /laps/

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

laps m (plural laps)

1. lapse, length (of time)

   un laps de vingt secondes ― a period of twenty seconds

   un laps de quelques heures ― a period of a few hours

   un laps de plusieurs mois ― a period of several months

   • 2007, Joseph Combet, Histoire de la ville et du canton d'Uzerche, page 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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• 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

• IPA^(key): /laps/, [laps]

laps m (definite singular lapsen, indefinite plural lapser, definite plural lapsene)

1. fop, dandy (a man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance)

• “laps” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “laps” in The Bokmål Dictionary.