rupes
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]rupes
- (astronomy, geology) An escarpment on another planet or a moon.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]rupes
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-(e)h₁-s (“cliff”),[2] from the root *Hrewp- (“break”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈruː.peːs/, [ˈruːpeːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈru.pes/, [ˈruːpes]
Noun
[edit]rūpēs f (genitive rūpis); third declension
- cliff, rock
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.427–429:
- hīc portūs aliī effodiunt; hīc alta theātrīs
fundāmenta locant aliī, immānīsque columnās
rūpibus excīdunt, scaenīs decora alta futūrīs.- Here some [workers] are excavating a harbor; there others lay deep foundations for theaters, and they are quarrying huge columns from the cliffs, lofty ornaments for future stages.
- hīc portūs aliī effodiunt; hīc alta theātrīs
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | rūpēs | rūpēs |
| genitive | rūpis | rūpium |
| dative | rūpī | rūpibus |
| accusative | rūpem | rūpēs rūpīs |
| ablative | rūpe | rūpibus |
| vocative | rūpēs | rūpēs |
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “rumpō, -is, rūpī”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 581
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “rumpō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 529–530
Further reading
[edit]- “rupes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rupes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rupes 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)
- rupes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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