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English
Etymology
From Latin rūpēs (“cliff”).
Noun
rupes
- (astronomy, geology) An escarpment on another planet or a moon.
Anagrams
- sprue, Pre-Us, re-ups, pures, super, Prues, Purse, super-, purse, reups, Super, puers
French
Pronunciation
Verb
rupes
- second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of ruper
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From a Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-(e)h₁-s (“cliff”),[2] from the root *Hrewp- (“break”).
Pronunciation
Noun
rūpēs f (genitive rūpis); third declension
- cliff, rock
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.427–429:
- hīc portūs aliī effodiunt; hīc alta theātrīs
fundāmenta locant aliī, immānīsque columnās
rūpibus excīdunt, scaenīs decora alta futūrīs.- Here some are excavating a harbor; there others lay deep foundations for theaters, and they are quarrying huge columns from the cliffs, lofty ornaments for future stages.
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “rumpō, -is, rūpī”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 581
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “rumpō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 529–530
Further reading
- “rupes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rupes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rupes 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)
- rupes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.