Alpes

See also: alpes and Alpės

French

Etymology

From Latin Alpēs, q.v.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alp/

• Audio:

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• (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

• Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
• Alpes-Maritimes
• Basses-Alpes
• cerfeuil des Alpes
• cor des Alpes
• euphraise des Alpes
• fenouil des Alpes
• Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
• Rhône-Alpes
• soldanelle des Alpes
• thésium des Alpes

 

Related terms

• alpestre
• Alpin
• alpin

 

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)
  • Turkish: Alpler
• → Persian: آلپ (âlp)
• → Romanian: Alpi
• → Russian: А́льпы (Álʹpy)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: Алпи

  Latin script: Ȃlpe, Alpi (Bosnia, Serbia)

Anagrams

• lapes, pâles, pelas

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”)).

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈal.peːs/, [ˈäɫ̪peːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.pes/, [ˈälpes]

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.

	plural
nominative	Alpēs
genitive	Alpium
dative	Alpibus
accusative	Alpēs Alpīs
ablative	Alpibus
vocative	Alpēs
locative	Alpibus

Derived terms

• alpicus
• alpīnus

Descendants

Descendants

• → Albanian: Alpe
• → Arabic: جِبَال اَلْأَلْب (jibāl al-ʔalb)
• → Armenian: Ալպեր (Alper)
• → Catalan: Alps
• → Dutch: Alpen
  • Afrikaans: Alpe
  • → Indonesian: Alpen
• → Esperanto: Alpoj
• → French: Alpes
  • → 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)
    • Turkish: Alpler
  • → Persian: آلپ (âlp)
  • → Romanian: Alpi
  • → Russian: А́льпы (Álʹpy)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: Алпи

    Latin script: Ȃlpe, Alpi (Bosnia, Serbia)

• → German: Alpen
• → Greek: Άλπεις (Álpeis)
• → Hungarian: Alpok, ⇒ alpesi
• → Irish: Alpa
• → Italian: Alpi
• → Norman: Alpes
• → Occitan: Aups, Alps
• → Spanish: Alpes
• → Portuguese: Alpes

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.

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French Alpes, from Latin Alpēs.

Proper noun

Alpes

1. Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

Descendants

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

References

• “Alpes, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Etymology

From Latin Alpēs.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey):

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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]

• (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)

Related terms

• alpinismo

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

• Alpes del sur
• Alpes neozelandeses
• Altos Alpes
• trompa de los Alpes

 

Related terms

• alpino