Antilope

See also: antilope, antílope, and antilopė

Translingual

Antilope cervicapra (blackbucks)

Etymology

New Latin, from Medieval Latin antalopus, anthalopus, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops), of uncertain origin.

Proper noun

Antilope m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Bovidae – blackbucks and extinct close relatives.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia – infraclass; Artiodactyla – order; Bovidae - family; Antilopinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Antilope cervicapra (blackbuck, Indian antelope) - sole extant species

References

• Antilope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Antilope on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Antilope on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French antilope.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /antiˈloːpə/
• Rhymes: -oːpə

• Audio:

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Noun

Antilope f (genitive Antilope, plural Antilopen)

1. antelope

Declension

Declension of Antilope [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Antilope	die	Antilopen
genitive	einer	der	Antilope	der	Antilopen
dative	einer	der	Antilope	den	Antilopen
accusative	eine	die	Antilope	die	Antilopen

Further reading

• “Antilope” in Duden online
• “Antilope” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Antilope on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de