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 Middle High German albe (“high mountain”), whence German Alb (“mountainous area”). Potentially related to Albanus or albus (“white”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈal.peːs/, [ˈäɫ̪peːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.pes/, [ˈälpes]

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.

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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

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

1. Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)