caprine

• Most commonly IPA^(key): /ˈkæpˌɹaɪn/; sometimes IPA^(key): /ˈkæpˌɹin/, /ˈkæp.ɹɪn/

Borrowed from Latin caprīnus. By surface analysis, Capr(a) +‎ -ine or Capr(inae) +‎ -ine.

• caprinic

caprine (comparative more caprine, superlative most caprine)

1. Of or relating to Capra (goats).

   Coordinate term: ovine

2. Of or relating to Caprinae (goats, sheep, and certain wild relatives): caprid.

   Hyponym: ovine

3. Goatlike: goatish; goaty.

• caper
• Capricorn
• cab

• haedine
• hircine

caprine (plural caprines)

1. Any of certain caprids (including sheep) that are regarded as being similar to the goat; any member of the tribe Caprini.
   • 2008, Charles R. Peters, et al., 3: Paleoecology of the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem, A. R. E. Sinclair, Craig Packer, Simon A. R. Mduma, John M. Fryxell (editors, Serengeti III: Human Impacts on Ecosystem Dynamics, page 77,

     By the late Holocene, most archaeological sites in the central Rift Valley display a significant pastoralist occupation and are dominated by cattle and caprines, while others preserve an abundant wild grassland fauna with substantial numbers of cattle and caprines (Gifford, Isaac, and Nelson 1980).

   • 2010, Aharon Sasson, Animal Husbandry in Ancient Israel: A Zooarchaeological Perspective on Livestock Exploitation, Herd Management and Economic Strategies, page 47:

     For instance, the graph of the Early Bronze Age sites shows that the relative frequency of caprines in regions 1, 2, and 3 does not differ significantly.

   • 2011, Joy McCorriston, Pilgrimage and Household in the Ancient Near East, page 123:

     Middle seventh-millennium BC domesticated caprines near the Red Sea coast may be introductions from across the Red Sea or along its coastal margins from the north (Vermeersch et al. 1994: 39), perhaps emphasizing the Red Sea littoral as a distinctive cultural area rather than a barrier or route to somewhere else.

   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 105:

     The caprines (a group that includes the goats, sheep and ibex) originated about 11 million years ago in either Africa or Europe, the earliest fossils coming from Africa and Greece.

• Goat-antelope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• caprid
• ovine
• Caprini (tribe within subfamily Caprinae)

caprine (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of caprin

• Pricean, encarpi

caprine

1. feminine singular of caprin

caprine

1. feminine plural of caprino

• capirne, carpine, encarpi

caprīne

1. vocative masculine singular of caprīnus

• IPA^(key): [kaˈprine]

caprine f

1. inflection of caprină:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular