alpaca
English
[edit]of the alpaca
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ælˈpækə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ækə
Noun
[edit]alpaca (countable and uncountable, plural alpacas or alpaca)
- A sheep-like domesticated animal of the Andes, Vicugna pacos, in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña.
- (uncountable) Wool from the alpaca, with strong very long fibres and coloring from black to brown to white.
- 1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London[1], New York: Henry Holt and Company:
- A lady in frayed alpaca, carrying a house-flannel, came to hearken.
- A garment made of such wool.
- 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
- The dress was at the bottom, — it was an alpaca, of a pretty shade in blue, bedecked with lace and ribbons, as is the fashion of the hour, and lined with sea-green silk.
Synonyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]- (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña (Category: en:Camelids)
Descendants
[edit]Translations
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Further reading
[edit]alpaca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Vicugna pacos on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]alpaca f (plural alpaques)
- alpaca (animal, fiber, and textile)
- nickel silver
- Synonyms: argentan, plata alemanya
Further reading
[edit]- “alpaca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]alpaca m (plural alpaca's, diminutive alpacaatje n)
Derived terms
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[edit]Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish, possibly via English, from Aymara allpaqa.
Noun
[edit]alpaca m (genitive singular alpaca, nominative plural alpacaí)
Declension
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Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
[edit]- olann alpaca f (“alpaca wool”)
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
alpaca | n-alpaca | halpaca | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- “alpaca”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
Italian
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Corazon_Full.jpg/250px-Corazon_Full.jpg)
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /alˈpa.ka/, (traditional) /ˈal.pa.ka/[1]
- Rhymes: -aka, (traditional) -alpaka
- Hyphenation: al‧pà‧ca, (traditional) àl‧pa‧ca
Noun
[edit]alpaca m (invariable)
- alpaca (Vicugna pacos)
- (uncountable) alpaca (wool)
- (uncountable) a fabric made out of a mixture of wool and cotton
References
[edit]- ^ alpaca in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
[edit]- alpaca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -akɐ
- Hyphenation: al‧pa‧ca
Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.
Noun
[edit]alpaca f (plural alpacas)
- alpaca (Vicugna pacos, a camelid of the Andes)
- alpaca (wool from the alpaca)
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (Camelids) camelídeo; camelo (dromedário, camelo-bactriano), lhama/lama, guanaco, alpaca, vicunha (Category: pt:Camelids)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]alpaca f (uncountable)
- nickel silver (alloy of copper, zinc and nickel)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French alpaga, alpaca, from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]alpaca f (plural alpacale)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (o) alpaca | alpacaua | (niște) alpacale | alpacalele |
genitive/dative | (unei) alpacale | alpacalei | (unor) alpacale | alpacalelor |
vocative | alpaca | alpacalelor |
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]alpaca f (plural alpacas)
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (Camelids) camélido; camello (dromedario, camello bactriano), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuña (Category: es:Camelids)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]All borrowings ultimately from Spanish, though for some direct paths are uncertain.
- → Afrikaans: alpakka
- → Arabic: أَلْبَكَة (ʔalbaka)
- → Armenian: ալպակա (alpaka)
- → Belarusian: альпака (alʹpaka)
- → Catalan: alpaca
- → Czech: alpaka
- → Danish: alpaka
- → Dutch: alpaca
- → English: alpaca
- → French: alpaga
- → Faroese: alpaka
- → Finnish: alpakka
- → Georgian: ალპაკა (alṗaḳa)
- → German: Alpaka
- → Greek: αλπάκα (alpáka)
- → Hungarian: alpaka
- → Irish: alpaca (possibly via English)
- → Italian: alpaca
- → Japanese: アルパカ (arupaka)
- → Korean: 알파카 (alpaka)
- → Macedonian: алпака (alpaka)
- → Norwegian: alpakka
- → Persian: آلپاکا (âlpâkâ)
- → Polish: alpaka
- → Portuguese: alpaca
- → Russian: альпака (alʹpaka)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovene: alpaca
- → Swedish: alpacka
- → Tagalog: alpaka
- → Ukrainian: альпака (alʹpaka)
Further reading
[edit]- “alpaca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- English terms borrowed from Spanish
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- Rhymes:English/ækə
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- Rhymes:Italian/aka
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- Rhymes:Italian/alpaka
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- it:Camelids
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/akɐ
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- Rhymes:Romanian/a
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- ro:Camelids
- Spanish terms borrowed from Aymara
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- Rhymes:Spanish/aka
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- es:Camelids