vulpes

== Latin == === Alternative forms === volpēs vulpis (late, proscribed) === Etymology === From earlier volpēs, from Proto-Italic *wolpis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl̥p-i-s (“marten, cat”). (compare Sanskrit लोपाश (lopāśá), Breton louarn, Lithuanian lãpė, Ancient Greek ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx), Persian روباه (rubâh)), with an analogous gender change. Possibly a conflation with earlier words for "wolf"; see wĺ̥kʷos. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwʊɫ.peːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvul.pes] === Noun === vulpēs f (genitive vulpis); third declension a fox, vixen (figuratively) smartness, strategy, quick thinking, adaptability, craftiness, cunning, cleverness, wisdom a kind of shark ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “vulpes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "vulpes", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “vulpes”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.