-scape

Back-formation from landscape, the suffix representing Middle Dutch -schap (“the English suffix -ship, e.g. of friendship, kinship, ownership”), from Old Dutch -skap (“-ship”), from Proto-Germanic *-skapiz (“-ship”), from *skapaz (“shape, form”). Cognate with Modern Dutch -schap (“-ship”), German -schaft (“-ship”), Swedish -skap (“-ship”), -scipe (“-ship”). More at -ship, shape.

-scape (noun-forming suffix, plural -scapes)

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

• EAPCs, EPACs, Space, a-spec, aspec, capes, paces, space