Alpes

See also: alpes

French

Etymology

From Latin Alpēs, q.v.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /alp/
  • Audio(file)
  • (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) IPA(key): /alpə/

Proper noun

Alpes f pl (plural only)

  1. Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Belarusian: А́льпы (Álʹpy)
  • → Bulgarian: А́лпи (Álpi)
  • → Middle English: Alpes
    • English: Alps
      • → Hindi: ऐल्प्स (ailps)
      • → Japanese: アルプス (Arupusu)
      • → Urdu: الپس (alps)
  • → Macedonian: А́лпи (Álpi)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: آلپ (Alp)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: آلپلر (Alpler)
  • → Persian: آلپ (âlp)
  • → Romanian: Alpi
  • → Russian: А́льпы (Álʹpy)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: Алпи
    Latin script: Ȃlpe, Alpi

Anagrams

German

Noun

Alpes m

  1. genitive singular of Alp

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to grow, rise”) or from a non-Indo-European (perhaps pre-Roman Alpine substrate) or Celtic source (compare Proto-Celtic *albiyū f (“alp”) or Scottish Gaelic alp f (“protuberance”)).[1][2]

Compare Middle High German albe (“high mountain”), whence German Alb (“mountainous area”). Potentially related to Albanus or albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Alpēs f pl (genitive Alpium); third declension

  1. the Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)
  2. (with adjective) a particular portion of the Alps

Usage notes

Only rarely found as the singular Alpis.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem), with locative, plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative Alpēs
Genitive Alpium
Dative Alpibus
Accusative Alpēs
Alpīs
Ablative Alpibus
Vocative Alpēs
Locative Alpibus

Derived terms

Descendants
Descendants of Alpes in other languages

References
  • “Alpes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Alpes”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • Alpes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. “Alp”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  2. Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Alp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French Alpes, from Latin Alpēs.

Proper noun

the Alpes

  1. Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

Descendants
  • English: Alps
    • → Hindi: ऐल्प्स (ailps)
    • → Japanese: アルプス (Arupusu)
    • → Urdu: الپس (alps)

Norman

Etymology

From Latin Alpēs.

Pronunciation
  • Audio (Jersey)(file)

Noun

L's Alpes f pl

  1. (Jersey) Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin Alpēs.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈaw.pis/ [ˈaʊ̯.pis]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈaw.piʃ/ [ˈaʊ̯.piʃ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈaw.pes/ [ˈaʊ̯.pes]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈal.pɨʃ/ [ˈaɫ.pɨʃ]

  • Hyphenation: Al‧pes

Proper noun

Alpes m pl

  1. Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Alpēs.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈalpes/ [ˈal.pes]
  • Rhymes: -alpes
  • Syllabification: Al‧pes

Proper noun

Los Alpes m pl

  1. Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

Derived terms
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