draper

See also: Draper, drapër, dräper, and dråper

English

Etymology

From Middle English draper, from Anglo-Norman draper, from Old French drapier, from drap + -ier.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈdɹeɪ.pə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)

Noun

draper (plural drapers)

  1. One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; a textile merchant.

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French draper (“to drape", also, "to full cloth”), from drap (“cloth, drabcloth”), from Late Latin drappus, drapus (“drabcloth, kerchief”), a word first recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne, probably from Old Low Frankish *drap, *drāp- (“that which is fulled, drabcloth”)[1] from Proto-Germanic *drap-, *drēp- (“something beaten”), from *drepaną (“to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreb- (“to beat, crush, make or become thick”).[2] Cognate with English drub (“to beat”), Low German drapen, dräpen (“to strike”). More at drape.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dʁa.pe/
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Verb

draper

  1. to drape

Conjugation
Conjugation of draper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple draper
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple drapant
/dʁa.pɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle drapé
/dʁa.pe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present drape
/dʁap/		 drapes
/dʁap/		 drape
/dʁap/		 drapons
/dʁa.pɔ̃/		 drapez
/dʁa.pe/		 drapent
/dʁap/
imperfect drapais
/dʁa.pɛ/		 drapais
/dʁa.pɛ/		 drapait
/dʁa.pɛ/		 drapions
/dʁa.pjɔ̃/		 drapiez
/dʁa.pje/		 drapaient
/dʁa.pɛ/
past historic2 drapai
/dʁa.pe/		 drapas
/dʁa.pa/		 drapa
/dʁa.pa/		 drapâmes
/dʁa.pam/		 drapâtes
/dʁa.pat/		 drapèrent
/dʁa.pɛʁ/
future draperai
/dʁa.pʁe/		 draperas
/dʁa.pʁa/		 drapera
/dʁa.pʁa/		 draperons
/dʁa.pʁɔ̃/		 draperez
/dʁa.pʁe/		 draperont
/dʁa.pʁɔ̃/
conditional draperais
/dʁa.pʁɛ/		 draperais
/dʁa.pʁɛ/		 draperait
/dʁa.pʁɛ/		 draperions
/dʁa.pə.ʁjɔ̃/		 draperiez
/dʁa.pə.ʁje/		 draperaient
/dʁa.pʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present drape
/dʁap/		 drapes
/dʁap/		 drape
/dʁap/		 drapions
/dʁa.pjɔ̃/		 drapiez
/dʁa.pje/		 drapent
/dʁap/
imperfect2 drapasse
/dʁa.pas/		 drapasses
/dʁa.pas/		 drapât
/dʁa.pa/		 drapassions
/dʁa.pa.sjɔ̃/		 drapassiez
/dʁa.pa.sje/		 drapassent
/dʁa.pas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — drape
/dʁap/		 — drapons
/dʁa.pɔ̃/		 drapez
/dʁa.pe/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

References
  1. http://onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/word/drabcloth
  2. Skeat, An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, "Drab."

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