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rupes

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See also: Rupes, rupés, rūpes, and rūpēs

English

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Latin rūpēs (“cliff”).

    Noun

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    rupes

    1. (astronomy, geology) An escarpment on another planet or a moon.

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    French

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    Pronunciation

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    Verb

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    rupes

    1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of ruper

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    Latin

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    From a Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-(e)h₁-s (“cliff”),[2] from the root *Hrewp- (“break”).

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    Noun

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    rūpēs f (genitive rūpis); third declension

    1. cliff, rock
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.427–429:
        hīc portūs aliī effodiunt; hīc alta theātrīs
        fundāmenta locant aliī, immānīsque columnās
        rūpibus excīdunt, scaenīs decora alta futūrīs.
        Here some [workers] are excavating a harbor; there others lay deep foundations for theaters, and they are quarrying huge columns from the cliffs, lofty ornaments for future stages.

    Declension

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    Third-declension noun (i-stem).

    singular plural
    nominative rūpēs rūpēs
    genitive rūpis rūpium
    dative rūpī rūpibus
    accusative rūpem rūpēs
    rūpīs
    ablative rūpe rūpibus
    vocative rūpēs rūpēs

    Derived terms

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    Descendants

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    • Aromanian: arup
    • Italian: rupe
    • Romanian: Rupea (toponym)
    • Spanish: rupe
    • → English: rupes

    References

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    1. ^ Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), “rumpō, -is, rūpī”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 581
    2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “rumpō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 529–530

    Further reading

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    • “rupes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “rupes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "rupes", 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)
    • “rupes”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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