vulpes
See also: Vulpes
Latin
vulpēs (a fox)
Etymology
From earlier volpēs, from Proto-Italic *wolpis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl(o)p- ~ *h₂ulp- (“(red) fox”) (compare Sanskrit लोपाश (lopāśá), Breton louarn, Lithuanian lãpė, Ancient Greek ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx), Persian روباه (rubâh)). Possibly a conflation with earlier words for "wolf"; see wĺ̥kʷos.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯ul.peːs/, [ˈu̯ʊɫ̪peːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvul.pes/, [ˈvulpes]
Noun
vulpēs f (genitive vulpis); third declension
- a fox, vixen
- (figuratively) smartness, strategy, quick thinking, adaptability, craftiness, cunning, cleverness, wisdom
- a kind of shark
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vulpēs | vulpēs |
| Genitive | vulpis | vulpium |
| Dative | vulpī | vulpibus |
| Accusative | vulpem | vulpēs vulpīs |
| Ablative | vulpe | vulpibus |
| Vocative | vulpēs | vulpēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Aromanian: vulpi, vulpe
- Catalan: volp
- Corsican: volpe, vorpe, volpi, vulpi
- Dalmatian: bualp, vualp
- Friulian: bolp, volp
- Galician: golpe, volpe
- Istriot: bulpo
- Istro-Romanian: vulpe
- Italian: volpe
- Ladin: volp, bolp
- Neapolitan: vorpe
- Occitan: volp
- Piedmontese: vulp
- Romanian: vulpe, hulpe
- Romansch: vulp, uolp; vualp, gualp; golp; vuolp
- Sicilian: vurpi, gurpi; vulpi, gulpi
- Venetian: volp, bolpe, bolp
- → Esperanto: vulpo
- → Translingual: Vulpes
References
- “vulpes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vulpes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- vulpes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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