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

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) IPA^(key): /ˈa.deps/, [ˈäd̪ɛps̠]
• (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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	adeps	adipēs
Genitive	adipis	adipum
Dative	adipī	adipibus
Accusative	adipem	adipēs
Ablative	adipe	adipibus
Vocative	adeps	adipēs

Derived terms

• adipālis
• adipātum
• adipātus
• adipeus
• adipōsus

References

• “adeps”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; 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