Alpes

From Latin Alpēs, q.v.

• IPA^(key): /alp/

• Audio:

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• (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) IPA^(key): /alpə/

Alpes f pl (plural only)

1. Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

• → 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)

• lapes, pâles, pelas

Alpes m

1. genitive singular of Alp

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 Old Saxon elbon (“Alps”, plural), Old High German alba (“alpine pasture”), Middle High German albe (“mountain meadow, high mountain, mountain range”), whence German Alb (“mountainous area”). Potentially related to Albanus or albus (“white”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaɫ.peːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈal.pes]

Alpēs f pl (genitive Alpium); third declension

1. the Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)
2. (with adjective) a particular portion of the Alps

Only rarely found as the singular Alpis.

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

• alpicus
• alpīnus

• “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.

Borrowed from Middle French Alpes, from Latin Alpēs.

Alpes

1. Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

• English: Alps
  • → Hindi: ऐल्प्स (ailps)
  • → Japanese: アルプス (Arupusu)
  • → Urdu: الپس (alps)

• “Alpes, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Latin Alpēs.

• Audio (Jersey):

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L's Alpes f pl

1. (Jersey) Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

From Latin Alpēs.

• Hyphenation: Al‧pes

Alpes m pl (plural only)

1. Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

• alpinismo

Borrowed from Latin Alpēs.

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

Los Alpes m pl (plural only)

1. Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

Borrowed from Spanish Alpes, from Latin Alpēs.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔalpes/ [ˈʔal.pɛs]
• Rhymes: -alpes
• Syllabification: Al‧pes

Alpes (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜉᜒᜐ᜔)

1. Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

   Synonym: Bundok-Alpino

• “Alpes”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018