volpe

Corsican

Una volpe.

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin vulpes, from Proto-Italic *wolpis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl(o)p. Cognates include Italian volpe and Romanian vulpe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvolpe/

Noun

volpe f (plural volpi)

  1. fox (Vulpes vulpes)
    Synonyms: mammacara, codipinnacciuta, codilonga
  2. (figurative) a malicious person

References

Galician

Etymology

From Latin vulpēs.

Noun

volpe m (plural volpes)

  1. fox

Further reading

  • volpe” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vulpēs (accusative vulpem) from earlier volpēs, from Proto-Italic *wolpis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl(o)p ~ *h₂ulp ((red) fox).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvol.pe/
  • Rhymes: -olpe
  • Hyphenation: vól‧pe
  • (file)

Noun

volpe f (plural volpi, diminutive volpétta or volpìna or volpìno m or volpicèlla or volpicìno m, augmentative volpóna or volpóne m, pejorative volpàccia; (always figurative) volponàccia or volponàccio m, diminutive-augmentative volpacchiòtta or volpacchiòtto)

  1. fox, vixen
  2. a crafty person

Derived terms

Further reading

  • volpe in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • volpe in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  • volpe in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • vólpe in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

volpe

  1. ablative singular of volpēs
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