See also: andes, andés, and ändes

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From Spanish Andes, perhaps from Quechua andi (high crest).

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  • enPR: ănʹdēz, IPA(key): /ˈæn.diːz/
  • (file)

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the Andes

  1. A mountain range in western South America.

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Borrowed from Spanish Andes, from Quechua andi (high crest).

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Andes m pl (plural only)

  1. Andes

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Borrowed from Spanish Andes, or alternatively Latin Andes.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɑn.dɛs/, /ˈɑn.dəs/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: An‧des

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de Andes pl

  1. the Andes [from late 16th c.]
    • 1596, Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien 1579-1592, Vol. 3, C.P. Burger & F.W.T. Hunger (eds.), Martinus Nijhoff (publ. 1934), page 176.
      Soo zijn dan die grensen oost ende zuyden Argyropolis, nae den nederganck die zuyder Zee, nae't noorden die Province Pastoa, dit landt wordt afghedeelt in driederley deelen, in Planitiem, Sierras, Andes, dat is in even ofte plat landt aen die Zee ligghende, in berghen ofte in berghachtighe landen, die midden door't landt strecken, ende in Peru over het gheberchte nae't oosten.
      The borders are like this: to the east and south Argyropolis (name of a river), to the descent to the south the sea, to the north the Province Pastoa, this land is divided into three parts, into Planitiem, Sierras, Andes, that is into level or flat land lying next to the sea, into mountains or into mountainous lands, that range across the middle of the lands, and into Pery over the mountains to the east.

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Andes f pl (plural only)

  1. the Andes

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Andes m pl

  1. Andes

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Etymology edit

From Spanish Andes, perhaps from Quechua andi (high crest)

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Andēs f pl (genitive Andium); third declension

  1. (New Latin) Andes (a mountain range in South America).

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Third-declension noun (i-stem), plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative Andēs
Genitive Andium
Dative Andibus
Accusative Andēs
Andīs
Ablative Andibus
Vocative Andēs

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Borrowed from Spanish Andes, from Quechua andi.

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  • Hyphenation: An‧des

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Andes m pl

  1. Andes (a mountain range in South America)

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Borrowed from Quechua andi (high crest). More at Andes.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈandes/ [ˈãn̪.d̪es]
  • Rhymes: -andes
  • Syllabification: An‧des

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los Andes m pl

  1. the Andes

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