ibex

English

an ibex

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪbɛks/

Noun

ibex (plural ibex or ibexes or ibices)

1. A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species .

Translations

type of wild mountain goat

• Albanian: dhia e shkëmbinjve ?
• Arabic: وَعِل m (waʕil)
• Armenian: վայրի այծ (vayri ayc), այծքաղ (hy) (ayckʻaġ)
• Basque: basahuntz
• Belarusian: горны альпійскі казел m (hórny alʹpijski kazjel)
• Breton: kragvouc’h an alpoù ?
• Bulgarian: козирог ? (kozirog)
• Catalan: cabra alpina f
• Czech: kozorožec m
• Danish: stenbuk c
• Dutch: steenbok (nl) m, ibex m
• Esperanto: ibekso, alpa kapro
• Estonian: kaljukits
• Faroese: steingeit f
• Finnish: vuorikauris, vuohi (fi)
• French: bouquetin (fr) m
• Friulian: stambec ?
• Galician: cabra montesa f
• German: Steinbock (de) m
• Greek: αίγαγρος (el) m (aígagros)
• Hebrew: יעל (he) m (ya'él)
• Hungarian: kőszáli kecske (hu), vadkecske (hu)
• Icelandic: fjallageit (is) f
• Ido: sovaja kapro (io)
• Italian: stambecco (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Ladin: stambech ?
• Latvian: kalnu āzis ?
• Lithuanian: ožiaragis ?
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• Luxembourgish: Steebock m
• Macedonian: козорог m (kozorog)
• Malay: kambing gurun
• Maltese: mogħża tal-barr ?
• Northern Sami: báktebohkká
• Norwegian: steinbukk ?
• Occitan: cabra salvatja f
• Persian: پازن (fa) (pâzen)
• Polish: koziorożec (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: cabra-montês f, cabra alpina f, cabra brava f
• Romanian: capră de stâncă f, ibex (ro) m
• Romansch: capricorn ?, stambutg ?
• Russian: го́рный альпи́йский козёл m (górnyj alʹpíjskij kozjól)
• Sardinian: craba de monti ?, istambeccu ?
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: козорог m

  Roman: 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)
• Ukrainian: гірский альпійский цап m (hirskyj alʹpijskyj cap), гірский альпійский козел m (hirskyj alʹpijskyj kozel)
• Welsh: alpafr f
• West Frisian: stienbok c

Anagrams

• Xibe, exbi-

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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.beks/, [ˈiːbɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.beks/, [ˈiːbeks]

Noun

ībex m (genitive ībicis); third declension

1. chamois

Declension

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

• (Late Latin) hybicum

Descendants

• Asturian: robizu, rebezu
• English: ibex
• Galician: rebezo
• Romanian: ibex
• Spanish: ibex, íbice, rebeco, robezo

References

• “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.

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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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)