See also:

• APE (Old Eng. ape; Dutch aap; Old Ger. a ffo; Welsh epa; Old Bohemian op; a word of uncertain origin, possibly an imitation of the animal's chatter)

APE (Old Eng. ape; Dutch aap; Old Ger. a ffo; Welsh epa; Old Bohemian op; a word of uncertain origin, possibly an See also:

• IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of the See also:

• ANIMAL
• ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

animal's chatter)  , the generic See also:

• ENGLISH

English name, till the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, for animals of the See also:

• MONKEY

monkey tribe, and stillused specifically for the tailless, manlike representatives of the See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order See also:

• PRIMATES
• PRIMATES (Lat. primas, first)

Primates (q.v.) . The word is now generally a synonym for " monkey," but the See also:

• COMMON

common verb for both (as transferred figuratively to human beings) is " to See also:

• APE (Old Eng. ape; Dutch aap; Old Ger. a ffo; Welsh epa; Old Bohemian op; a word of uncertain origin, possibly an imitation of the animal's chatter)

ape," i.e. to imitate .