rapiat
Finnish
Etymology
From rapia, dialectal form of rapea.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrɑpiɑt/, [ˈrɑ̝piɑ̝t̪]
- Rhymes: -ɑpiɑt
- Syllabification(key): ra‧pi‧at
- Hyphenation(key): ra‧pi‧at
Adjective
rapiat (not comparable) (colloquial)
- (idiomatic) a bit more (than)
- He saivat kaksi vuotta ja rapiat.
- They got a bit over two years.
- Vielä rapiat sataa kilsaa.
- A bit over hundred kilometers now.
Declension
Indeclinable. Always in nominative plural. If used attributively (never used predicatively), the modified noun must also be in plural.
Further reading
- “rapiat”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Noun
rapiat m (plural rapiats, feminine rapiate)
- (colloquial) cheapskate, miser
- 2005, Kaamelott - Livre II - Episode 28: Le passage secret:
- Je ne suis pas venue ici pour quémander ! Mais à moins de deux-mille pièces d’or, vous allez passer pour un rapiat !
- I didn't come here to beg ! But anything less than two thousand gold coins, and you'll come off as a miser!
References
- “rapiat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
rapiat
- third-person singular present active subjunctive of rapiō