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 Old Saxon elbon (“Alps”, plural), Old High German alba (“alpine pasture”), Middle High German albe (“mountain meadow, high mountain, mountain range”), 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

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Alpes, from Latin Alpēs.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔalpes/ [ˈʔal.pɛs]
• Rhymes: -alpes
• Syllabification: Al‧pes

Proper noun

Alpes (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜉᜒᜐ᜔)

1. Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

   Synonym: Bundok-Alpino

Related terms

• alpinismo
• alpinista
• alpino
• Alpino

Further reading

• “Alpes”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018