saepes

Latin

Alternative forms

• sēpēs

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *seh₂ip- (“to cram, fence”), possibly from *sh₂ey-. Cognate with saepis, saepiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsae̯.peːs/, [ˈs̠äe̯peːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.pes/, [ˈsɛːpes]

Noun

saepēs f (genitive saepis); third declension

1. hedge, fence

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	saepēs	saepēs
Genitive	saepis	saepium
Dative	saepī	saepibus
Accusative	saepem	saepēs saepīs
Ablative	saepe	saepibus
Vocative	saepēs	saepēs

Descendants

• Italian: siepe
• Latin: sēpēs (see there for further descendants)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *saepālis, *saepīlis
  • Gascon: sübiu
  • Ligurian: sevale (Old Genoese)
  • Neapolitan: sepale
  • Old French: sevil
    • Bourbonnais-Berrichon: sevau
  • Sicilian: sipala

References

• “saepes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “saepes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• saepes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 878
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “saepes”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 563