vulpes

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Latin

vulpēs (a fox)

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

Noun

vulpēs f (genitive vulpis); third declension

  1. a fox, vixen
  2. (figuratively) smartness, strategy, quick thinking, adaptability, craftiness, cunning, cleverness, wisdom
  3. 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

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.
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