canapé

Borrowed from French canapé. Doublet of canopy and conopeum.

• Audio (US):

  (file)

canapé (plural canapés)

1. An hors d’oeuvre, a bite-sized open-faced sandwich made of thin bread or toast topped with savory garnish.
2. A piece of furniture similar to a couch or settee, an elegant sofa.
   • 1908, Upton Sinclair, The Metropolis, New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, page 29:

     Oliver was sitting on the edge of the canapé, swinging one leg over the other; and he stopped abruptly and stared, and then sank back, laughing softly to himself.

• Canepa

canapé m (plural canapés)

1. (Valencia) alternative spelling of canapè

canapé (unofficial)

1. alternative form of kanapé

Borrowed from French canapé. Attested since the 18th century.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkaː.naːˈpeː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ca‧na‧pé
• Rhymes: -eː

canapé m (plural canapés, diminutive canapeetje n)

1. canapé (food)
2. canapé (furniture)
   • 1966 [1951], Annie M.G. Schmidt, “Tante Trui en Tante Toosje [Aunt Trui and Aunt Toosje]”, in De spin Sebastiaan [Sebastian the Spider]‎^[1], Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers, page 57:

     't Water steeg en bleef maar stijgen / en de hele kanapee / ging toen langzaam aan het drijven / en de tantes dreven mee.

     The water rose and kept rising / and the entire canapé / slowly went afloat / and the aunts floated along with it.

• canap’

From Old French conopé, conope (later altered in form and meaning based on Medieval Latin canāpēum, alteration of canōpēum (“mosquito net”)), itself from Latin cōnōpēum (“seat with a canopy”), from Ancient Greek κωνωπεῖον (kōnōpeîon), from κώνωψ (kṓnōps, “mosquito”). Cognate with English canopy.

• IPA^(key): /ka.na.pe/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

canapé m (plural canapés)

1. sofa
2. piece of bread covered with some savory (finger) food
3. nibble (small bits of food, e.g. at a party)

• promotion canapé

• canopée

• “canapé” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.
• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
• H. H. Mallinckrodt, Latijn Nederlands woordenboek (Aula n° 24), Utrecht-Antwerpen, Spectrum, 1959 [Latin - Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

• “canapé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• pacane

Unadapted borrowing from French canapé.

canapé (plural canapé-canapé)

1. (cooking) canapé (a bite-sized slice open-faced sandwich)

• “canapé” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from French canapé.^[1][2]

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: ca‧na‧pé

canapé m (plural canapés)

1. canapé (a bite-size slice open-faced sandwich)
2. canapé (a type of elegant sofa)

Borrowed from French canapé.

• IPA^(key): /kanaˈpe/ [ka.naˈpe]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: ca‧na‧pé

canapé m (plural canapés)

1. canapé (food)
2. canapé (furniture)
3. snack food

• → Tagalog: kanape

• “canapé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024