ibex
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English
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Etymology
[edit]From Latin ībex (“chamois”), possibly from Iberian or Aquitanian; akin to Old Spanish bezerro (“bull”) (modern becerro (“yearling”)).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈaɪbɛks/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪbɛks
Noun
[edit]ibex (plural ibex or ibexes or ibices)
- A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species Capra ibex.
- (heraldry) An imaginary creature with serrated horns, somewhat similar to the heraldic antelope.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]type of wild mountain goat
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Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Loanword of uncertain origin; suggested to be from a pre-Latin substrate language spoken in the Alps,[1][2] as the ibex is native to the mountain range. If an Indo-European language, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ebʰ- (“climbing”).
Or, possibly of Iberian or Aquitanian origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈiː.beks/, [ˈiːbɛks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈi.beks/, [ˈiːbeks]
Noun
[edit]ībex m (genitive ībicis); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ībex | ībicēs |
| Genitive | ībicis | ībicum |
| Dative | ībicī | ībicibus |
| Accusative | ībicem | ībicēs |
| Ablative | ībice | ībicibus |
| Vocative | ībex | ībicēs |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Asturian: robizu, rebezu
- English: ibex
- Galician: rebezo
- Romanian: ibex
- Spanish: ibex, íbice, rebeco, robezo
References
[edit]- “ibex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ibex 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)
- ibex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Watkins, Calvert (1985) The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, volume II, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]ibex m (plural ibecși)
Declension
[edit]Declension of ibex
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]ibex m (plural ibex)
- ibex
- 2015 November 23, “La pelota es de Florentino”, in El País[1]:
- El club se ha quedado sin más mensajes que la purpurina de las listas de Forbes sobre los clubes más ricos del mundo, los Balones de Oro, la evangelización madridista con puentes en Indonesia o Australia y ese deslumbrante palco de la casa blanca por el que desfilan políticos y empresarios de todos los ibex de este mundo.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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