-scape

Origin

Abstracted from landscape, the suffix representing Middle Dutch -schap ("-ship"), from Old Dutch -skap ("-ship"), from Proto-Germanic *-skapiz ("-ship"), from Proto-Germanic *skapaz ("shape, form"). Cognate with Modern Dutch -schap ("-ship"), German -schaft ("-ship"), Swedish -skap ("-ship"), Old English -sceap, -scipe ("-ship"). More at -ship, shape.

Suffix

1. form, formation, shape
2. scene, picture, view
3. A specific type of space

Derived terms

• beatscape
• cityscape
• dreamscape
• ecoscape
• ethnoscape
• financescape
• harbourscape, harborscape
• interiorscape
• manscape
• mindscape
• moonscape
• nightscape
• roofscape
• sandscape
• seascape
• snowscape
• soundscape
• spacescape
• streetscape
• timescape
• treescape
• urbanscape
• xeriscape