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Ancient Greek
Etymology Presumably from earlier Proto-Hellenic *alōpēkos *alṓpāks Proto-Indo-European *h₂lōpeh₂s *h₂lop- ); compare Old Armenian աղուէս ( ałuēs ) , Lithuanian lãpė Latvian lapsa Sanskrit लोपाश ( lopāśá ) . The many irregular variations on the word may suggest a Mediterranean wanderword instead; compare Luwian ( ulipna- ) /( walipna- , “ wolf ” ) and Latin vulpēs ( “ fox ” ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /a.lɔ̌ː.pɛːks/ → /aˈlo.piks/ → /aˈlo.piks/
Noun ᾰ̓λώπηξ • (alṓpēx ) f genitive ᾰ̓λώπεκος third declension
fox ( small canine of the genus Vulpes )
1st century C.E. Αἱ ἀλώπεκες φωλεοὺς ἔχουσιν καὶ τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ κατασκηνώσεις, ὁ δὲ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου οὐκ ἔχει ποῦ τὴν κεφαλὴν κλίνῃ. Hai alṓpekes phōleoùs ékhousin kaì tà peteinà toû ouranoû kataskēnṓseis, ho dè huiòs toû anthrṓpou ouk ékhei poû tḕn kephalḕn klínēi. The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have roosts , but the Son of Man has nothing where he may lay his head. Synonym: βασσάρα ( bassára ) ( figuratively ) cunning or sly person
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants Greek: > αλεπού ( alepoú ) ( inherited ) , → ἀλώπηξ ( alṓpēx ) , αλώπηξ ( alópix ) ( learned )
Mariupol Greek: алыпу́ ( alypú )
Pontic Greek: αλεπός ( alepós )
→ Samoan: ālope ( learned ) → Tokelauan: ālope ( learned ) → Translingual: Alopex ( learned )
Further reading “ἀλώπηξ Liddell & Scott (1940 ) A Greek–English Lexicon
“ἀλώπηξ Liddell & Scott (1889 ) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon , New York: Harper & Brothers
ἀλώπηξ Bailly, Anatole (1935 ) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français ἀλώπηξ Diccionario Griego–Español “ἀλώπηξ Slater, William J. (1969 ) Lexicon to Pindar , Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G258 in Strong, James (1979 ) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible Woodhouse, S. C. (1910 ) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language 342 Woodhouse, S. C. (1910 ) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language
Greek
Etymology From Ancient Greek ἀλώπηξ ( alṓpēx ) .
Noun ἀλώπηξ • (alṓpēx ) f plural αλώπεκες
( Katharevousa ) fox
Declension
Synonyms
Αλώπηξ f ( Alópix , “ Vulpecula ” )