vulpes
See also: Vulpes
Latin
Alternative forms
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)), with an analogous gender change. Possibly a conflation with earlier words for "wolf"; see wĺ̥kʷos.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwʊɫ.peːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvul.pes]
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).
| 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 (Sursilvan), vualp, gualp (Sutsilvan), golp (Surmiran), vuolp (Puter, Vallader)
- Sicilian: vurpi, gurpi, vulpi, gulpi
- Venetan: 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.