adeps

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin adeps (“fat, lard”).

Noun

adeps (uncountable)

1. (physiology) Soft or liquid animal fat.

Synonyms

• (soft or liquid fat): lard

Related terms

• adipose

Translations

soft or liquid animal fat

• Portuguese: ádipe m, ádipo m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Anagrams

• Spade, apsed, paeds, pedas, spade

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Latin

Alternative forms

• adips

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Italic *adlepa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leybʰ-. Related to Umbrian 𐌀𐌛𐌄𐌐𐌄𐌔 (ařepes).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.deps/, [ˈäd̪ɛps̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.deps/, [ˈäːd̪eps]

Noun

adeps m (genitive adipis); third declension

1. fat, lard, grease
2. corpulence, obesity
3. sapwood

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	adeps	adipēs
genitive	adipis	adipum
dative	adipī	adipibus
accusative	adipem	adipēs
ablative	adipe	adipibus
vocative	adeps	adipēs

References

• “adeps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “adeps”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• adeps 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)
• adeps in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.