Alpes

See also: alpes and Alpės

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

Alpes

Wikipedia ^fr

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)

Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

Derived terms

Related 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)
- 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

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

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

Proper noun

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

Alpes

Wikipedia ^la

Alpēs f pl (genitive Alpium); third declension

the Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)
(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

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.

^ “Alp”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Alp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French Alpes, from Latin Alpēs.

Proper noun

Alpes

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): (file)

Noun

L's Alpes f pl

(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

Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

Related terms

alpinismo

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Alpes

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Alpēs.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Los Alpes m pl

Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

Derived terms

Related terms

alpino

[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.

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