vulpinus

Latin

Alternative forms

• volpīnus

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl̥p-i-s

Proto-Italic *wolpis

Latin volpēs

Latin vulpēs

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnus

Latin vulpīnus

From vulpēs (“fox”) + -īnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wʊɫˈpiː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vulˈpiː.nus]

Adjective

vulpīnus (feminine vulpīna, neuter vulpīnum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) vulpine, fox

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vulpīnus	vulpīna	vulpīnum		vulpīnī	vulpīnae	vulpīna
genitive	vulpīnī	vulpīnae	vulpīnī		vulpīnōrum	vulpīnārum	vulpīnōrum
dative	vulpīnō	vulpīnae	vulpīnō		vulpīnīs
accusative	vulpīnum	vulpīnam	vulpīnum		vulpīnōs	vulpīnās	vulpīna
ablative	vulpīnō	vulpīnā	vulpīnō		vulpīnīs
vocative	vulpīne	vulpīna	vulpīnum		vulpīnī	vulpīnae	vulpīna

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: volpigno, volpino (latinized)

Borrowings:

• → Catalan: vulpí
• → English: vulpine
• → French: vulpin
• → Piedmontese: vulpin
• → Portuguese: vulpino
• → Spanish: vulpino

References

• “vulpinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vulpinus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.