FromMiddle Englishskippere,skyppere,scippere, borrowed fromMiddle Dutchscipper,schipper, fromOld Dutch*skipāri, fromProto-Germanic*skipārijaz.Piecewise doublet ofshipper, fromship +-er.
skipper (pluralskippers)
- (nautical) Themaster of aship.
- Synonyms:master,captain
- Acoach,director, or otherleader.
- (sports) Thecaptain of asportsteam such asfootball,cricket,rugby orcurling.
2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 Wolverhampton”, inBBC[2]:But even the return ofskipper Steven Gerrard from a six-week injury layoff could not inspire Liverpool
master of a ship
- Avestan:𐬥𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬁𐬰𐬋(nauuāzō)
- Bulgarian:шки́пер m(škíper)
- Danish:skipper c,skibsfører c,kaptajn (da) c
- Dutch:schipper (nl) m,kapitein (nl) m
- Faroese:skipari m
- Finnish:kippari (fi)
- French:capitaine (fr),skipper (fr) m
- German:Schiffer (de) m,Kapitän (de) m,Schiffskapitän m
- Greek:πλοίαρχος (el)(ploíarchos),σκίπερ(skíper)
- Hebrew:סְקִיפֶּר (he) m(skipper),רַב סַפָּן (he) m(rav sapan)
- Irish:scipéir m
- Italian:skipper (it) m
- Macedonian:капета́н m(kapetán)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:kaptein m,skipper m
- Nynorsk:kaptein m,skipper m
- Persian:ناخدا (fa)(nâxodâ)
- Russian:шки́пер (ru) m(škíper),капита́н (ru) m(kapitán)
- Scottish Gaelic:sgiobair m
- Spanish:patrón (es) m
- Swedish:skeppare (sv) c,kapten (sv) c
- Welsh:capten m,meistr (cy) m,sgiper m
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skipper (third-person singular simple presentskippers,present participleskippering,simple past and past participleskippered)
- (transitive) Tocaptain a ship or a sports team.
2019, Tony Perrottet, “A Deep Dive Into the Plans to Take Tourists to the ‘Titanic’”, inSmithsonian Magazine:Tourist subs, which could once beskippered by anyone with a U.S. Coast Guard captain’s license
FromMiddle Englishskippere,skyppare, equivalent toskip +-er.
skipper (pluralskippers)
- Agent noun ofskip: one who skips.
- A person whoskips, or fails toattendclass.
- (sports) One whojumps rope.
- Any ofvariousbutterflies of the familiesHesperiidae and its subfamilyMegathyminae, having a hairy mothlike body, hooked tips on the antennae, and a darting flight pattern.[1]
c.1864,John Clare,We passed by green closes:Blueskippers in sunny hours ope and shut
Where wormwood and grunsel flowers by the cart ruts[…]
- Any of severalmarinefishes that oftenleap above water, especiallyCololabis saira (Pacific saury) andSprattus sprattus (European sprat).
- (obsolete) A young, thoughtless person.[2]
c.1590–1592 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene i]:Skipper, stand back; 'tis age that nourisheth
- Thecheese maggot, the larva of acheese fly (familyPiophilidae), which leaps to escape predators.[3]
one who fails to attend class
butterfly of the family Hesperiidae
Probably fromWelshysgubor(“a barn”).
skipper (pluralskippers)
- Abarn orshed in which toshelter for the night.
skipper (third-person singular simple presentskippers,present participleskippering,simple past and past participleskippered)
- (intransitive) To take shelter in a barn or shed.
Unknown, perhaps related tojumper.[4]
skipper (pluralskippers)
- (South Africa) A short-sleeved (or long-sleeved) tee-shirt, or sweatshirt.
- Synonyms:jumper,tee-shirt
1971 June 26,Golden City Post:Plain nylondoeks...Men's knittedskippers, long sleeves, three buttons in front.
1987 August 19,Eastern Province Herald:The special constables..were issued with one pair of boots, two overalls, one raincoat, and twoskippers — but no shirts or warm coats.
1990 May 26, O. Musi,Drum Magazine:My neighbour's little boy pestered his dad for a 'Viva' T-shirt. This long-suffering man pointed out to his son that he had been sharing hisw:Cosatuskipper with him.., but the kid..did not want to wear it any longer as it was not, as he put it,'skipa sa Mandela'.
- ^“skipper”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- ^“skipper”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- ^“skipper”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- ^Dictionary of South African English[1],(Can wedate this quote?)
Borrowed fromEnglishskipper.
skipper m (pluralskippers)
- skipper
skipper
- toskipper
| infinitive | simple | skipper |
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| compound | avoir + past participle |
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| present participle orgerund1 | simple | skippant
/ski.pɑ̃/ |
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| compound | ayant + past participle |
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| past participle | skippé
/ski.pe/ |
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| singular | plural |
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| first | second | third | first | second | third |
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| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles |
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(simple
tenses) | present | skippe
/skip/ | skippes
/skip/ | skippe
/skip/ | skippons
/ski.pɔ̃/ | skippez
/ski.pe/ | skippent
/skip/ |
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| imperfect | skippais
/ski.pɛ/ | skippais
/ski.pɛ/ | skippait
/ski.pɛ/ | skippions
/ski.pjɔ̃/ | skippiez
/ski.pje/ | skippaient
/ski.pɛ/ |
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| past historic2 | skippai
/ski.pe/ | skippas
/ski.pa/ | skippa
/ski.pa/ | skippâmes
/ski.pam/ | skippâtes
/ski.pat/ | skippèrent
/ski.pɛʁ/ |
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| future | skipperai
/ski.pʁe/ | skipperas
/ski.pʁa/ | skippera
/ski.pʁa/ | skipperons
/ski.pʁɔ̃/ | skipperez
/ski.pʁe/ | skipperont
/ski.pʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | skipperais
/ski.pʁɛ/ | skipperais
/ski.pʁɛ/ | skipperait
/ski.pʁɛ/ | skipperions
/ski.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ | skipperiez
/ski.pə.ʁje/ | skipperaient
/ski.pʁɛ/ |
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(compound
tenses) | present perfect | present indicative ofavoir + past participle |
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| pluperfect | imperfect indicative ofavoir + past participle |
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| past anterior2 | past historic ofavoir + past participle |
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| future perfect | future ofavoir + past participle |
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| conditional perfect | conditional ofavoir + past participle |
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| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles |
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(simple
tenses) | present | skippe
/skip/ | skippes
/skip/ | skippe
/skip/ | skippions
/ski.pjɔ̃/ | skippiez
/ski.pje/ | skippent
/skip/ |
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| imperfect2 | skippasse
/ski.pas/ | skippasses
/ski.pas/ | skippât
/ski.pa/ | skippassions
/ski.pa.sjɔ̃/ | skippassiez
/ski.pa.sje/ | skippassent
/ski.pas/ |
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(compound
tenses) | past | present subjunctive ofavoir + past participle |
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| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive ofavoir + past participle |
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| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – |
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| simple | — | skippe
/skip/ | — | skippons
/ski.pɔ̃/ | skippez
/ski.pe/ | — |
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| compound | — | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | — | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | — |
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| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the prepositionen. |
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:- past historic → present perfect
- past anterior → pluperfect
- imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
- pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive
(Christopher Kendris [1995],Master the Basics: French, pp.77,78,79,81). |
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishskipper.
skipper m (invariable)
- (nautical)skipper (person in charge of a vessel)
FromMiddle Low Germanschipper.
skipper m (definite singularskipperen,indefinite pluralskippere,definite pluralskipperne)
- (nautical) askipper
FromMiddle Low Germanschipper.
skipper m (definite singularskipperen,indefinite pluralskipperar,definite pluralskipperane)
- (nautical) askipper
