Noun: sapèque
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | sapèque |
| Plural f | sapèques |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like sapèque
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Malay sa (“one”) + paku (“thread of one hundred pichi coins”). Attested as sapocou and sapacou in the 18th century, then as sapeck in the 19th century. Cognate with Portuguese sapeca. See: Portuguese Nouns '
sapeca'.
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