ape
意味
- サル(monkey);(特に,チンパンジー・ゴリラなどの)尾なしザル,類人猿
- 人まねをする人
- …のまねをする,をまねる(mimic)
例文
Why have the apes evolved more than other animals?
なぜ類人猿は他の動物よりも進化したのか。
Why do men behave like apes, and vice versa?
なぜ人間はサルのように、またなぜサルは人間のように振舞うのか。
The primates include not only the apes, but also man.
霊長類は尾の無いサルだけでなく人間も含む。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English ape, from Old English apa (“ape, monkey”), from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô (“monkey, ape”), possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”), compare Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”) (hence English place name Avon, Irish abha, Welsh afon), if the word originally referred to a "water sprite". Traditionally assumed to be an ancient loanword instead, ultimately probably from an unidentified non-Indo-European language of regions in Africa or Asia where monkeys are native.