# mappa
## French
### Pronunciation

* Homophones: mappas, mappât

### Verb

mappa
* third-person singular past historic of mapper

## Icelandic
### Etymology

Borrowed from Danish mappe.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmahpa/
* Rhymes: -ahpa

### Noun

mappa f (genitive singular möppu, nominative plural möppur)
* folder, file
* (computing) folder, directory

#### Derived terms

* bréfamappa
* gatamappa
* hvítflibbamöppudýr
* lausblaðamappa
* leðurmappa
* myndamappa
* möppudýr
* plastmappa
* skjalamappa
* skrifborðsmappa
* verkefnamappa
* vinnumappa

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmap.pa/
* Rhymes: -appa
* Hyphenation: màp‧pa

### Etymology 1

From Latin mappa, of possibly Semitic origin.

#### Noun

mappa f (plural mappe)
* (regional) tablecloth, napkin, cloth
* (archaic) any pictorial representation of a piece of land
* (topography) any graphic representation with a scale above 1:10,000; map, chart
* the final part in a traditional key

##### Derived terms

* mappaggio
* mappale
* mappare

##### Related terms

* mappamondo

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

mappa
* inflection of mappare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* pampa

## Latin
### Etymology

Said by the Roman author Quintilian to be of Punic origin, perhaps from Phoenician 𐤌𐤀𐤐 (mʾp /⁠mappē⁠/), from Proto-Semitic *manpay, *manpiy- (“fine cloth, sieve”). Compare Israeli Hebrew מַפָּה (mappā́, “a map; a cloth”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmap.pa/, [ˈmäpːä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmap.pa/, [ˈmäpːä]

### Noun

mappa f (genitive mappae); first declension
* napkin
    Coordinate term: mantēle
* (horse racing) starting signal
* (New Latin) map
    Synonyms: (Classical Latin) tabula, (Medieval Latin) charta

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: mapa m
* → Danish: mappe
* → English: map
** → Swedish: mappa
* → Esperanto: mapo
* Galician: mapa m
* → German: Mappe
** → Czech: mapa
** → Dutch: map
** → Romanian: mapă
* Italian: mappa
* Mirandese: mapa
* → Old French: mapamonde
** > French: mappemonde, mapper (inherited)
** Middle English: mapemounde
*** English: map
* > Old French: nappe (inherited)
** → English: nape, napkin
** ⇒ Portuguese: guardanapo
* → Polish: mapa
** → Belarusian: ма́па (mápa)
** → Ukrainian: ма́па (mápa)
** → Yiddish: מאַפּע (mape)
* Portuguese: mapa m
* Sicilian: mappa, mappina
* Spanish: mapa m
* Venetan: mapa

### References

* ↑ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “mappa”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎ (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 386
* ↑ “map”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

### Further reading

* “mappa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “mappa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* mappa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* mappa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “mappa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “mappa”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Maltese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian mappa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmap.pa/

### Noun

mappa f (plural mapep)
* map (visual representation of an area)

#### Related terms

* mappamondu
* mmappja

## Portuguese
### Noun

mappa m (plural mappas)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of mapa.

## Swedish
### Etymology

From English map.

### Verb

mappa (present mappar, preterite mappade, supine mappat, imperative mappa)
* (colloquial, computer science) to map
* (slang, geography) to map

#### Synonyms

* avbilda
* kartlägga
* tilldela

#### Related terms

* mappning