" rape "

[Noun]  | "rape" | \ ˈrāp \

1: unlawful sexual activity and usually sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against a person's will or with a person who is beneath a certain age or incapable of valid consent because of mental illness, mental deficiency, intoxication, unconsciousness, or deception

2: an outrageous violation

3: an act or instance of robbing or despoiling or carrying away a person by force

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English, "violent seizure, abduction of a woman with the intent of sexually assaulting her," borrowed from Anglo-French rap, rape, probably borrowed from Medieval Latin rapum, noun derivative of rapiō, rapere "to seize and carry off, abduct a woman with the intent of sexually assaulting her" {mat|rape:2|};

  * Note : Use of this word in its most predominant modern meaning is attested early in legal Anglo-French and British Medieval Latin, though the precise derivational pathways are uncertain. The Latin word may have been based on the Anglo-French word, but both must ultimately be dependent on the classical Latin verb. Note that rapum exists alongside classical Latin raptus, the regularly derived u-stem verbal noun, used in British Medieval Latin in the sense "rape." Compare {ravish|ravish}.;

[Noun]  | "rape" 

1: an Old World herb (Brassica napus) of the mustard family grown as a forage crop and for its seeds which yield rapeseed oil and are a bird food

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English, "turnip, Brassica napus," borrowed from Latin rāpa, rāpum "turnip"; akin to Germanic *rōbjōn- "turnip" (whence Middle Dutch & Middle Low German rove, Old High German ruoba, ruoppa), Lithuanian rópė, Greek rháphys, rhápys (all going back to an earlier *rāp(h)-), Church Slavic (eastern) rěpa, Polish rzepa (going back to *rēp-), Welsh erfin "turnips, rape," Breton irvin (going back to *arb-īno-, perhaps metathesized from *rab-), all from a substratal pre-Indo-European word of uncertain form;

  * Note : The Greek forms with fluctuating aspiration, as well as the derivative rháphanos any of various cultivars of Brassica oleracea, radish, with the suffix -anos, argue for membership in the same pre-Greek substratum as a number of other Greek words; whether the other European forms are borrowed from this etymon or are part of a more general substratum is unclear (see: Robert Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2010, p. 1277). Not related to Old Norse rófa tail (see: Guus Kroonen, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic, Brill, 2013, p. 415).;

[Noun]  | "rape" 

1: the pomace of grapes left after expression of the juice

Origin: 1657 ;

 French râpe grape stalk;

[Noun]  | "acquaintance rape" 

1: rape committed by someone known to the victim

Origin: 1974 ;

[Noun]  | "date rape" 

1: rape committed by the victim's date; broadly : acquaintance rape

Origin: 1975 ;

[Noun]  | "date-rape drug" 

1: a drug (such as GHB or ketamine) placed secretly usually in the drink or food of a potential victim to induce a state (such as confusion, physical weakness, or unconsciousness) that makes the victim vulnerable to sexual assault and especially rape

Origin: 1995 ;

[Noun]  | "gang rape" 

1: rape of one person by several attackers in succession

Origin: 1875 ;

[Verb]  | "rape" 

1: to commit rape on

2: despoil

3: to seize and take away by force

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English rapen "to abduct a woman with the intent of sexually assaulting her," borrowed from Anglo-French raper, borrowed from Medieval Latin rapiō, rapere "to seize and carry off, abduct a woman with of the intent of sexually assaulting her," going back to Latin, "to seize and carry off, take away by force, carry off a woman with the intent of sexually assaulting her, carry or sweep along, impel forcibly (to a course of conduct), snatch up, gather quickly" {mat|rapid:1|};

  * Note : The verb rapen in its predominant modern sense is rare in Middle English, the more common verb meaning "to rape" being ravisshen "to {ravish|ravish}." The Middle English Dictionary lists rapen with a meaning "to carry off, transport (the soul to heaven)," but all forms cited are for a past participle rapt, rapte, which appears to have been borrowed directly from Medieval Latin raptus, past participle of rapere in this sense (see: {rapt|rapt}). See also the note at {rape:1|rape:1}.;

[Verb]  | "date-rape" | \ ˈdāt-ˌrāp \

1: to commit date rape on

Origin: 1984 ;

[Adjective]  | "an*ti-rape" | \ ˌan-tē-ˈrāp \

1: serving or intended to prevent or discourage rape

Origin: 1897 ;

[Noun]  | "rape" 

[Verb]  | "rape"