ibex

English

An ibex.

A heraldic ibex.

Alternative forms

• ibecks (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin ībex (“chamois”), possibly from Iberian or Aquitanian; akin to Old Spanish bezerro (“bull”) (modern becerro (“yearling”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪbɛks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪbɛks

Noun

ibex (plural ibex or ibexes or ibices)

2. A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species Capra ibex.
3. (heraldry) An imaginary creature with serrated horns, somewhat similar to the heraldic antelope.

Derived terms

• Alpine ibex
• bezoar ibex
• Iberian ibex
• Nubian ibex
• Pyrenean ibex
• Siberian ibex
• Spanish ibex

Translations

type of wild mountain goat

• Albanian: dhia e shkëmbinjve ?
• Amharic: ዋሊያ (waliya)
• Arabic: وَعِل m (waʕil)
• Armenian: վայրի այծ (vayri ayc), այծքաղ (hy) (ayckʻaġ)
• Asturian: mueyu (ast), mueyu alpín (ast)
• Basque: basahuntz
• Belarusian: горны альпійскі казел m (hórny alʹpijski kazjel)
• Breton: kragvouc’h an alpoù ?
• Bulgarian: ко́зирог m (kózirog)
• Catalan: cabra alpina f
• Czech: kozorožec m
• Danish: stenbuk c
• Dutch: steenbok (nl) m, ibex m
• Dzongkha: བྱག་ར (byag ra)
• Esperanto: ibekso, alpa kapro
• Estonian: kaljukits
• Faroese: steingeit f
• Finnish: vuohi (fi); vuorikauris (dated)
• French: bouquetin (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: stienbok c

• Friulian: stambec ?
• Galician: cabra montesa f
• German: Steinbock (de) m
• Greek: αίγαγρος (el) m (aígagros)

  Ancient Greek: αἴγαγρος m (aígagros)

• Hebrew: יעל (he) m (ya'él)
• Hungarian: kőszáli kecske (hu), vadkecske (hu)
• Icelandic: fjallageit (is) f
• Ido: sovaja kapro (io)
• Irish: ibeach m
• Italian: stambecco (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بزنەکێوی (biznekêwî)

• Ladin: stambech ?
• Latvian: kalnu āzis m
• Lithuanian: ožiaragis ?
• Luxembourgish: Steebock m
• Macedonian: козорог m (kozorog)
• Malay: kambing gurun
• Maltese: mogħoż tal-barr m
• Manchu: ᡨᡝᡥᡝ (tehe)
• Norwegian: steinbukk m
• Occitan: cabra salvatja f
• Persian: پازن (fa) (pâzen), پاژن (fa) (pâžen)
• Plautdietsch: Steenbock m
• Polish: koziorożec (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: cabra-montês f, cabra alpina f, cabra brava f, íbex m
• Romanian: capră de stâncă f, ibex (ro) m
• Romansh: capricorn ?, stambutg ?
• Russian: го́рный альпи́йский козёл m (górnyj alʹpíjskij kozjól)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: báktebohkká

• Sardinian: craba de monti ?, istambeccu ?
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: козорог m

  Latin: kozorog (sh) m

• Slovak: kozorožec horský m
• Slovene: kozorog (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: źiwy kózoł m, kózyrožk m

  Upper Sorbian: kozoróžk m

• Spanish: íbice (es) m, ibex m
• Swedish: alpstenbock ?
• Turkish: dağ keçisi (tr)
• Tuvan: те (te) (Siberian ibex)
• Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎓𐎍 (yʿl)
• Ukrainian: гірский альпійский цап m (hirskyj alʹpijskyj cap), гірский альпійский козел m (hirskyj alʹpijskyj kozel)
• Welsh: alpafr f

Further reading

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Ibex”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume V (H–K), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 4, column 3.

Anagrams

• Xibe, exbi-

Latin

Etymology

Loanword of uncertain origin; suggested to be from a pre-Latin substrate language spoken in the Alps, 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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.bɛks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.beks]

Noun

ībex m (genitive ībicis); third declension

1. chamois

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ībex	ībicēs
genitive	ībicis	ībicum
dative	ībicī	ībicibus
accusative	ībicem	ībicēs
ablative	ībice	ībicibus
vocative	ībex	ībicēs

Derived terms

• (Late Latin) hybicum

Descendants

• ⇒ Asturian: robizu, rebezu
• ⇒ Galician: rebezo
• ⇒ Italian: beccio, beccia (regional), >? becco
• ⇒ Spanish: rebeco, robezo
• → English: ibex
• → Italian: ibice
• → Romanian: ibex
• → Spanish: ibex, íbice

References

• “ibex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "ibex", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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.

Romanian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ibex.

Noun

ibex m (plural ibecși)

1. ibex

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	ibex	ibexul	ibecși	ibecșii
genitive-dative	ibex	ibexului	ibecși	ibecșilor
vocative	ibexule		ibecșilor

Spanish

Noun

ibex m (plural ibex)

1. 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.

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