alpine

See also: Alpine

English

Etymology

From Latin Alpīnus, from Alpēs (“the Alps”). Cognates include French alpin.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæl.paɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

alpine (comparative more alpine, superlative most alpine)

1. Of, relating to, or inhabiting mountains, especially above the timberline.

   alpine snows;   alpine plants

   • 1910, William Robinson, “Forewords to new edition”, in Alpine Flowers for Gardens: Rock, Wall, Marsh Plants, and Mountain Shrubs‎^[1], 4th edition, John Murray, page ix-x:

     What are alpine plants? The word alpine is used to denote the plants that grow naturally on all high mountain-chains, whether they spring from hot tropical plains or from green northern pastures. Above the cultivated land these flowers begin to occur on the fringes of the stately woods; they are seen in multitudes in the vast pastures which clothe many great mountain-chains, enamelling their soft verdure; and also where neither grass nor loose herbage can exist; or where feeble world-heat is quenched and mountains are crumbled into ghastly slopes of shattered rock by the contending forces of heat and cold, even there, amid the glaciers, they spring from Nature's ruined battle-ground, as if the mother of earth-life had sent up her loveliest children to plead with the spirits of destruction. Alpine plants fringe the vast fields of snow and ice of the high mountains, and at great elevations have often scarcely time to flower and ripen a few seeds before they are again imbedded in the snow; […]

2. (skiing) Of or relating to slalom and downhill skiing.

   Coordinate term: Nordic

Derived terms

• afroalpine
• alpine accentor
• alpine anemone
• alpine bullhead
• alpine butterfly bend
• alpine butterfly knot
• alpine chough
• alpine club-moss
• alpine club moss
• alpine clubmoss
• alpine coil
• alpine combined
• Alpine County
• alpine hawkweed
• alpinely
• alpine marmot
• alpine meadow lizard
• alpine-meadow lizard
• alpine newt
• alpine pasqueflower
• alpine salamander
• alpine saxifrage
• alpine skier
• alpine skiing
• alpine snowboard
• alpine snowboarder
• alpine snowboarding
• alpinesque
• alpine start
• alpinism
• alpinist
• Calpine
• para-alpine
• para alpine skiing
• semialpine

Translations

of or relating to mountains

• Catalan: alpí m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高山的 (gāoshānde)

• Finnish: alpiininen, alppi-, vuoristo- (fi)
• French: alpin (fr), montagnard (fr)
• Friulian: alpin
• Georgian: მაღალმთიანი (maɣalmtiani), სამთო (samto), მთის (mtis), ალპური (alṗuri)
• German: alpin (de)
• Hungarian: hegyi (hu), alpesi (hu)
• Italian: alpestre (it), alpino (it)
• Portuguese: alpestre, montês (pt), montanhês, montesino
• Russian: альпи́йский (ru) (alʹpíjskij), го́рный (ru) (górnyj), высокого́рный (ru) (vysokogórnyj)
• Spanish: alpino (es)

of or relating to slalom or downhill skiing

• Catalan: alpí m
• Finnish: alppilaji-
• German: alpin (de)
• Italian: alpino (it)
• Norwegian: alpint m
• Portuguese: alpino (pt)
• Russian: альпи́йский (ru) (alʹpíjskij)
• Swedish: alpin (sv)

Noun

alpine (plural alpines)

1. (botany) Any of several plants, native to mountain habitats, often grown in rock gardens.
   • 1991, Jack Elliott, Alpines in the Open Garden, Christopher Helm, →ISBN, page 64:

     There can be little doubt that the autumn-flowering gentians are the elite of late-flowering alpines, but alas they can only be enjoyed by those gardeners with an acid soil, unless they can be grown in containers.

Translations

alpine plant

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高山植物 (zh) (gaoshan zhíwù)

• Finnish: alppikasvi, kalliokasvi

Anagrams

• Nepali, Pinela, Épinal, penial, Lapine, pineal, apelin, plaine

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French alpin, alpine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑlˈpi.nə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: al‧pi‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

Adjective

alpine (comparative alpiner, superlative meest alpine or alpinest)

1. Alternative form of alpien

Declension

Declension of alpine
uninflected	alpine
inflected	alpine
comparative	alpiner
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		alpine	alpiner	het alpinest het alpineste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	alpine	alpinere	alpineste
	n. sing.	alpine	alpiner	alpineste
	plural	alpine	alpinere	alpineste
definite		alpine	alpinere	alpineste
partitive		alpines	alpiners	—

French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

alpine

1. feminine singular of alpin

Italian

Adjective

alpine f pl

1. feminine plural of alpino

Anagrams

• paline, penali

Latin

Adjective

alpīne

1. vocative masculine singular of alpīnus