sepes

See also: Sepes

Latin

Alternative forms

• saepēs

Etymology

Monophthongized 'rustic' counterpart to saepēs. From Proto-Indo-European *seh₂ip- (“to cram, fence”).

Noun

sēpēs f (genitive sēpis); third declension

1. hedge, fence

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sēpēs	sēpēs
Genitive	sēpis	sēpium
Dative	sēpī	sēpibus
Accusative	sēpem	sēpēs sēpīs
Ablative	sēpe	sēpibus
Vocative	sēpēs	sēpēs

Descendants

• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franc-Comtois: sué
  • Old French: soif
  • Occitan: sep
  • Piedmontese: sev
  • Romagnol:
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: sebe
  • Portuguese: sebe
  • Spanish: sebe
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Romansch: saiv

References

• “sepes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sepes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sepes 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)
• sepes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “saepes”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 563