Meanings
comparative more opake · superlative most opake
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of opaque.
Gestures […] are not of general use, since darkness or the interposition of an opake medium renders them useless.
1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 551 more example
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 […]
1969, Douglas McKie, (Please provide the book title or journal name), Digitized edition (Science), Harvard Univ. Press, published 2007, page 187
Origin
- Middle Frenchopaque
- Latinopacus“shaded, shady, dark”
- Middle Englishopake
- Englishopake
From Middle English opake, from Latin opacus (“shaded, shady, dark”) (of unknown origin), later reinforced from Middle French opaque.
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