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ibex

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An ibex.
 
A heraldic ibex.

Etymology edit

From Latin ībex (“chamois”), possibly from Iberian or Aquitanian; akin to Old Spanish bezerro (“bull”) (modern becerro (“yearling”)).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɪbɛks/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪbɛks

Noun edit

ibex (plural ibex or ibexes or ibices)

  1. A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species Capra ibex.
  2. (heraldry) An imaginary creature with serrated horns, somewhat similar to the heraldic antelope.

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

Loanword of uncertain origin; suggested to be from a pre-Latin substrate language spoken in the Alps,[1][2] as the ibex is native to the mountain range. If an Indo-European language, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ebʰ- (“climbing”).

Or, possibly of Iberian or Aquitanian origin.

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Noun edit

ībex m (genitive ībicis); third declension

  1. chamois

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ībex ībicēs
Genitive ībicis ībicum
Dative ībicī ībicibus
Accusative ībicem ībicēs
Ablative ībice ībicibus
Vocative ībex ībicēs

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References edit

  • “ibex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ibex 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)
  • ibex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  1. ^ Watkins, Calvert (1985) The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  2. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, volume II, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin ibex.

Noun edit

ibex m (plural ibecși)

  1. ibex

Declension edit

Declension of ibex
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) ibex ibexul (niște) ibecși ibecșii
genitive/dative (unui) ibex ibexului (unor) ibecși ibecșilor
vocative ibexule ibecșilor

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Noun edit

ibex m (plural ibex)

  1. ibex
    • 2015 November 23, “La pelota es de Florentino”, in El País‎[1]:
      El club se ha quedado sin más mensajes que la purpurina de las listas de Forbes sobre los clubes más ricos del mundo, los Balones de Oro, la evangelización madridista con puentes en Indonesia o Australia y ese deslumbrante palco de la casa blanca por el que desfilan políticos y empresarios de todos los ibex de este mundo.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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