opake

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English opake, from Latin opacus (shaded, shady, dark) (of unknown origin), later reinforced from Middle French opaque.

Adjective

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opake (comparative more opake, superlative most opake)

  1. Alternative form of opaque
    • 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 55:
      Gestures [] are not of general use, since darkness or the interposition of an opake medium renders them useless.
    • 1969, Douglas McKie, (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], Digitized edition (Science), Harvard Univ. Press, published 2007, page 187:
      The artificial marble made here is made in the common way with Gypsum Lime and other materials and the artist who is an Italian calls himself a Scagliolist (Scagliola being their name for Gypsum or works in Gypsum) he imitates some of the opake and coloured marbles []

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Adjective

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opake

  1. inflection of opaak:
    1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
    2. definite neuter singular attributive
    3. plural attributive

German

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opake

  1. inflection of opak:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Middle English

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Etymology

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From Latin opacus (shaded, shady, dark) (of unknown origin), later reinforced from Middle French opaque.

Adjective

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opake (comparative opaker, superlative opakest)

  1. dark, shaded, unlit
    • c 1440, Palladius
      Summe haue hem grene ypuld, and stoon & all They honge hem vp in place opake and drie.
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Serbo-Croatian

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Adjective

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opake

  1. inflection of opak:
    1. masculine accusative plural
    2. feminine genitive singular
    3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural