alpaca

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See also: Alpacca and alpacca

English

Geographic distribution
of the alpaca
An alpaca (Vicugna pacos)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

Noun

alpaca (countable and uncountable, plural alpacas or alpaca)

  1. A sheep-like domesticated animal of the Andes, Vicugna pacos, in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña.
    • 1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 210:
      Away from the village, there was an enclosure containing several large animals of a kind I had not seen before—shaggy, long-necked, small-headed creatures who stood or lay at ease around their pen. Alpacas?
  2. (uncountable) Wool from the alpaca, with strong very long fibres and coloring from black to brown to white.
    • 1918 , Thomas Burke, Nights in London‎, New York: Henry Holt and Company:
      A lady in frayed alpaca, carrying a house-flannel, came to hearken.
  3. A garment made of such wool.
    • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
      The dress was at the bottom, — it was an alpaca, of a pretty shade in blue, bedecked with lace and ribbons, as is the fashion of the hour, and lined with sea-green silk.

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

Noun

alpaca f (plural alpaques)

  1. alpaca (animal, fiber, and textile)
  2. nickel silver
    Synonyms: argentan, plata alemanya

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɑlˈpaː.kaː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: al‧pa‧ca

Noun

alpaca m (plural alpaca's, diminutive alpacaatje n)

  1. alpaca

Derived terms

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Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish, possibly via English, from Aymara allpaqa.

Noun

alpaca m (genitive singular alpaca, nominative plural alpacaí)

  1. alpaca

Declension

Declension of alpaca (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative alpaca alpacaí
vocative a alpaca a alpacaí
genitive alpaca alpacaí
dative alpaca alpacaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-alpaca na halpacaí
genitive an alpaca na n-alpacaí
dative leis an alpaca
don alpaca 		leis na halpacaí

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Mutation

Mutated forms of alpaca
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
alpaca n-alpaca halpaca not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

  • “alpaca”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Italian

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alˈpa.ka/, (traditional) /ˈal.pa.ka/
  • Rhymes: -aka, (traditional) -alpaka
  • Hyphenation: al‧pà‧ca, (traditional) àl‧pa‧ca

Noun

alpaca m (invariable)

  1. alpaca (Vicugna pacos)
  2. (uncountable) alpaca (wool)
  3. (uncountable) a fabric made out of a mixture of wool and cotton

References

  1. ^ alpaca in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

  • alpaca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -akɐ
  • Hyphenation: al‧pa‧ca

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Noun

alpaca f (plural alpacas)

  1. alpaca (Vicugna pacos, a camelid of the Andes)
  2. alpaca (wool from the alpaca)
Coordinate terms
camelids: camelídeosedit

Etymology 2

Noun

alpaca f (uncountable)

  1. nickel silver (alloy of copper, zinc and nickel)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French alpaga, alpaca, from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al.paˈka/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: al‧pa‧ca

Noun

alpaca f (plural alpacale)

  1. alpaca (animal)
  2. alpaca (wool)

Declension

Declension of alpaca
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative alpaca alpacaua alpacale alpacalele
genitive-dative alpacale alpacalei alpacale alpacalelor
vocative alpaca alpacalelor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

Noun

alpaca f (plural alpacas)

  1. alpaca

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Descendants

All borrowings ultimately from Spanish, though for some direct paths are uncertain.

Further reading

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