## Meanings
1. The outer form of something, such as a circle or square.
2. To give something a particular form, or to influence how it develops.
3. The condition or state that someone or something is in.

## Examples
- What shape shall we make the cookies, stars or circles?
- The teacher helped shape the way her students thought.
- After months of training, she was in great shape.

## Synonyms
- form
- gestalt
- mold
- shapen

## Derived Forms
- bandshape
- beshape
- blendshape
- deshape
- eigenshape
- eyeshape
- foreshape
- forshape
- handshape
- headshape
- lineshape
- misshape

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *(s)kep-
- Root: shap
- Root: ġesceap
- Root: *ga-
- Root: shapen
- Root: scieppan
- Root: *skappjan
- Root: *skapjaną

## Etymology
From Middle English shap, schape, from Old English ġesceap (“shape, form, created being, creature, creation, dispensation, fate, condition, sex, gender, genitalia”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga- + *skap, from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *skapą (“shape, nature, condition”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to split, cut”). The verb is from Middle English shapen, schapen, from Old English scieppan (“to shape, form, make, create, assign, arrange, destine, order, adjudge”), from Proto-West Germanic *skappjan, from Proto-Germanic *skapjaną (“to create”), from the noun. The noun is cognate wi…

## AI Etymology
Shape is from Middle English shap, schape, from Old English ġesceap (“shape, form, created being, creature, creation, dispensation, fate, condition, sex, gender, genitalia”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga- + *skap, from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *skapą (“shape, nature, condition”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to split, cut”). The verb is from Middle English shapen, schapen, from Old English scieppan (“to shape, form, make, create, assign, arrange, destine, order, adjudge”), from Proto-West Germanic *skappjan, from Proto-Germanic *skapjaną (“to create”), from the noun. Important forms in the word's history include Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep-, Middle English shap, Old English ġesceap, Proto-West Germanic *ga-, Proto-Germanic *ga-, Middle English shapen, Old English scieppan, and related intermediate forms. In current use it includes senses such as The outer form of something, such as a circle or square and To give something a particular form, or to influence how it develops.

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