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alpaca

See also: Alpacca and alpacca

English

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Geographic distribution
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An alpaca (Vicugna pacos)

Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

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Noun

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alpaca (countable and uncountable, plural alpacas or alpaca)

  1. A sheep-like domesticated animal of the Andes, Vicugna pacos, in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña.
    • 1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 210:
      Away from the village, there was an enclosure containing several large animals of a kind I had not seen before—shaggy, long-necked, small-headed creatures who stood or lay at ease around their pen. Alpacas?
  2. (uncountable) Wool from the alpaca, with strong very long fibres and coloring from black to brown to white.
    • 1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London‎[1], New York: Henry Holt and Company:
      A lady in frayed alpaca, carrying a house-flannel, came to hearken.
  3. A garment made of such wool.
    • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
      The dress was at the bottom, — it was an alpaca, of a pretty shade in blue, bedecked with lace and ribbons, as is the fashion of the hour, and lined with sea-green silk.

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Descendants

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  • → Gujarati: અલ્પાકા (alpākā)
  • → Thai: อัลปากา (an-bpaa-gâa)

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

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Noun

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alpaca f (plural alpaques)

  1. alpaca (animal, fiber, and textile)
  2. nickel silver
    Synonyms: argentan, plata alemanya

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌɑlˈpaː.kaː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: al‧pa‧ca

Noun

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alpaca m (plural alpaca's, diminutive alpacaatje n)

  1. alpaca

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Irish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish, possibly via English, from Aymara allpaqa.

Noun

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alpaca m (genitive singular alpaca, nominative plural alpacaí)

  1. alpaca

Declension

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Declension of alpaca (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative alpaca alpacaí
vocative a alpaca a alpacaí
genitive alpaca alpacaí
dative alpaca alpacaí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-alpaca na halpacaí
genitive an alpaca na n-alpacaí
dative leis an alpaca
don alpaca 		leis na halpacaí

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of alpaca
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
alpaca n-alpaca halpaca not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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  • “alpaca”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024

Italian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /alˈpa.ka/, (traditional) /ˈal.pa.ka/[1]
  • Rhymes: -aka, (traditional) -alpaka
  • Hyphenation: al‧pà‧ca, (traditional) àl‧pa‧ca

Noun

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alpaca m (invariable)

  1. alpaca (Vicugna pacos)
  2. (uncountable) alpaca (wool)
  3. (uncountable) a fabric made out of a mixture of wool and cotton

References

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  1. ^ alpaca in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

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  • alpaca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /awˈpa.kɐ/ [aʊ̯ˈpa.kɐ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /awˈpa.ka/ [aʊ̯ˈpa.ka]

  • Rhymes: -akɐ
  • Hyphenation: al‧pa‧ca

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Noun

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alpaca f (plural alpacas)

  1. alpaca (Vicugna pacos, a camelid of the Andes)
  2. alpaca (wool from the alpaca)
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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alpaca f (uncountable)

  1. nickel silver (alloy of copper, zinc and nickel)

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French alpaga, alpaca, from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /al.paˈka/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: al‧pa‧ca

Noun

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alpaca f (plural alpacale)

  1. alpaca (animal)
  2. alpaca (wool)

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative alpaca alpacaua alpacale alpacalele
genitive-dative alpacale alpacalei alpacale alpacalelor
vocative alpaca alpacalelor

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /alˈpaka/ [alˈpa.ka]
  • Audio (Spain):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aka
  • Syllabification: al‧pa‧ca

Noun

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alpaca f (plural alpacas)

  1. alpaca

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Descendants

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All borrowings ultimately from Spanish, though for some direct paths are uncertain.

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