rupes

See also: Rupes, rupés, rūpes, and rūpēs

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin rūpēs (“cliff”).

Noun

rupes

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

Anagrams

• Pre-Us, Purse, pures, purse, re-ups, reups, sprue, super, super-

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁyp/

Verb

rupes

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

Anagrams

• peurs
• pures
• repus
• super

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Latin

Etymology

From the root Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-, the same of rumpō (“I break”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈruː.peːs/, [ˈruːpeːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈru.pes/, [ˈruːpes]

Noun

rūpēs f (genitive rūpis); third declension

1. cliff, rock

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rūpēs	rūpēs
Genitive	rūpis	rūpium
Dative	rūpī	rūpibus
Accusative	rūpem	rūpēs rūpīs
Ablative	rūpe	rūpibus
Vocative	rūpēs	rūpēs

Derived terms

• rūpicola
• rūpestris

Descendants

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

References

• “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’s 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.