adeps

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English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin adeps (“fat, lard”).

Noun

adeps (uncountable)

  1. (physiology) Soft or liquid animal fat.

Synonyms

  • (soft or liquid fat): lard

Translations

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Italic *adlepa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leybʰ-. Related to Umbrian 𐌀𐌛𐌄𐌐𐌄𐌔 (ařepes).

Pronunciation

Noun

adeps m (genitive adipis); third declension

  1. fat, lard, grease
  2. corpulence, obesity
  3. sapwood

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative adeps adipēs
genitive adipis adipum
dative adipī adipibus
accusative adipem adipēs
ablative adipe adipibus
vocative adeps adipēs

Derived terms

References

  • “adeps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “adeps”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "adeps", 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)
  • adeps in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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