rope – English noun declension

English noun forms of rope

Noun: rope
Singularrope
Pluralropes

Sample Sentences

  • Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.
  • The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.
  • All at once, let’s heave on the rope!
  • The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.
  • Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth. [2003, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River, →ISBN, page 138:]
  • The principle of any such device should be to pull on the vessel by a rope of water passing in at the bow and out at the stern. [1852, John Bourne, A Treatise on the Screw Propeller: With Various Suggestions of Improvement, page 38:]
  • He hit a rope past third and into the corner.
  • The central strip of the loka, the Middle World, represents its smallest area, being only one rope wide and one hundred thousand leagues high, […] [2001, “Review of Metaphysical Teaching”, in Nagendra Kr. Singh, editor, Encyclopaedia of Jainism, →ISBN, page 7522:]
  • shooting ropes
  • The murderer was sentenced to the rope.

Etymology

1. From Middle English rop, rope, from Old English rāp (“rope, cord, cable”), from Proto-West Germanic *raip, from Proto-Germanic *raipaz, *raipą (“rope, cord, band, ringlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roypnós (“strap, band, rope”), from *h₁reyp- (“to peel off, tear; border, edge, strip”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Scots rape, raip (“rope”), Saterland Frisian Roop (“rope”), West Frisian reap (“rope, cord”), Dutch roop, reep (“rope, cord, ring, strip, bar”), German Low German Reep (“rope”), German Reif (“ring, hoop”), Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish rep (“rope”), Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk reip (“rope”), Danish reb (“rope”), Icelandic reipi (“rope”), Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”). See: Middle English Nouns 'rop', German Nouns 'Reif', Icelandic Nouns 'reipi'.

Verbs referencing "rope"

Dutch Nouns reep, German Nouns Reep.