different between clothe vs striptease

English

Etymology

From Middle English clothen, from Old English cl?þian (“to clothe”), from Proto-Germanic *klaiþ?n? (“to clothe”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to adhere to, stick”). Cognate with Dutch kleden, German kleiden, Swedish kläda, after apocope klä. See also cloth, clad.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kl??ð/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?klo?ð/
• Rhymes: -??ð

Verb

clothe (third-person singular simple present clothes, present participle clothing, simple past and past participle clothed or (archaic) clad)

1. (transitive) To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
   • 1478, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, 101-104, [1]

     A YEMAN hadde he and servantz namo / At that tyme, for hym liste ride soo; / And he was clad in cote and hood of grene.
2. (figuratively) To cover or invest, as if with a garment.

   • language in which they can clothe their thoughts

   • 1726, John Dyer, Grongar Hill

     His sides are clothed with waving wood.

Synonyms

• (to adorn or cover with clothing): dight, don, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe

Derived terms

• beclothe
• overclothe
• underclothe

Translations

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English cl?þ.

Noun

clothe

1. Alternative form of cloth

Etymology 2

From Old English cl?þian.

Verb

clothe

1. Alternative form of clothen

English

Etymology

From strip +? tease.

Pronunciation

Noun

striptease (plural stripteases)

1. The act of slowly taking off one's clothes to sexually arouse the viewer, often accompanied by music and in exchange for money.

Synonyms

• dance of the seven veils, fan dance

Descendants

Translations

Verb

striptease (third-person singular simple present stripteases, present participle stripteasing, simple past and past participle stripteased)

1. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.

Related terms

• strip
• stripper

Translations

Anagrams

• tapestries

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English striptease.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?strip?ti?s/, [?s?t?rip?t?i?s?]
• Syllabification: strip?tease

Noun

striptease

1. striptease (act or show)

Usage notes

There's no standard declension to this term, the one presented in the table is only one possibility. It might be disputed on the basis that the spelling /?st?ript?i?s/ would be pronounced with front vowel harmony (ä's instead of a's), but this is the way that seems to be mostly used in the printed sources available. In fact, in this model the inflected forms are written as if the word were pronounced as /?st?rip?t?e?a?se/, which is hardly ever used in speech. When inflected, the word striptease is sometimes substituted in text with striptease-tanssi, striptease-esitys etc. in order to make the word inflectable as a regular word. Another possibility to avoid inflection problems is to use the terms strippaus or strippi for the act.

Declension

Derived terms

French

Etymology

From English striptease.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?ip.tiz/

Noun

striptease m (plural stripteases)

1. striptease

Derived terms

• stripteaseur, stripteaseuse

Portuguese

Etymology

From English striptease.

Noun

striptease m (plural stripteases)

1. striptease (act of slowly taking off one’s clothes to sexually arouse the viewer)

   Synonym: strip

Spanish

Alternative forms

• estriptis, estriptís

Etymology

Borrowed from English striptease.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?t?ibtis/, [es?t??i??.t?is]

Noun

striptease m (plural stripteases)

1. striptease

Further reading

• “striptease” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.