apus

apus

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of apor

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒpuʃ]
• Hyphenation: apus
• Rhymes: -uʃ

apa (“father”) +‎ -us (diminutive suffix)

apus

1. dad, daddy

apu (“father”) +‎ -s (“-like, -related”, adjective-forming suffix)

apus (comparative apusabb, superlative legapusabb)

1. typical or characteristic of dad/daddy

• apus in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• apus in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qa(m)pus (“come to an end, be destroyed”). Compare Sundanese apus (“easily go out, extinguished (fire)”).

• IPA^(key): /apus/

apus

1. to extinguish; to put an end to
2. to delete

apus

1. breathe for the last time
2. disappear completely

From Ancient Greek ἄπους (ápous, “footless”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.puːs/, [ˈäpuːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.pus/, [ˈäːpus]

apūs m (genitive apodis); third declension

1. A martlet, swallow; a kind of bird believed to have no feet.

Third-declension noun.

• “apus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

apus

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of apor

From the past participle of the verb apune (“to fade, set”), from Latin apponere. Was the traditional word for "west", but today vest is used as the standard term. Compare also the descendants of Latin ponens in the Western Romance languages, which developed the meaning of "west".

• IPA^(key): /aˈpus/

apus m or n (feminine singular apusă, masculine plural apuși, feminine and neuter plural apuse)

1. (of celestial bodies) set
2. bygone, dead, vanished

apus n (plural apusuri)

1. (poetic) west
2. sunset

   Synonym: asfințit

3. (figurative) decline

• (west): vest (standard), occident

• (antonym(s) of “west”): răsărit (also somewhat uncommon), est (standard), orient

• (compass points) punct cardinal;

Native Romanian
miazănoapte apus   răsărit miazăzi
Borrowed from French/German
nord-vest nord nord-est vest   est sud-vest sud sud-est

apus

1. past participle of apune

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /ʔapus/ [ʔɑˈpus]
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: a‧pus

apus (Sulat Sūg spelling اَفُسْ)

1. gambling