ibex

From Latin ībex (“chamois”), possibly from Iberian or Aquitanian; akin to Old Spanish bezerro (“bull”) (modern becerro (“yearling”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪbɛks/

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• Rhymes: -aɪbɛks

ibex (plural ibex or ibexes or ibices)

1. A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species Capra ibex.
2. (heraldry) An imaginary creature with serrated horns, somewhat similar to the heraldic antelope.

• Xibe, exbi-

Loanword of uncertain origin; suggested to be from a pre-Latin substrate language spoken in the Alps,[1][2] as the ibex is native to the mountain range. If an Indo-European language, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ebʰ- (“climbing”).

Or, possibly of Iberian or Aquitanian origin.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.beks/, [ˈiːbɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.beks/, [ˈiːbeks]

ībex m (genitive ībicis); third declension

1. chamois

Third-declension noun.

• (Late Latin) hybicum

• Asturian: robizu, rebezu
• English: ibex
• Galician: rebezo
• Romanian: ibex
• Spanish: ibex, íbice, rebeco, robezo

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

Borrowed from Latin ibex.

ibex m (plural ibecși)

1. ibex

ibex m (plural ibex)

1. ibex
   • 2015 November 23, “La pelota es de Florentino”, in El País‎:

     El club se ha quedado sin más mensajes que la purpurina de las listas de Forbes sobre los clubes más ricos del mundo, los Balones de Oro, la evangelización madridista con puentes en Indonesia o Australia y ese deslumbrante palco de la casa blanca por el que desfilan políticos y empresarios de todos los ibex de este mundo.

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