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English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin adeps (“fat, lard”).
Noun
adeps (uncountable)
- (physiology) Soft or liquid animal fat.
Synonyms
- (soft or liquid fat): lard
Related terms
Translations
soft or liquid animal fat
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
- fat, lard, grease
- corpulence, obesity
- sapwood
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN