Alpis

Latin

Etymology

See Alpes

Proper noun

Alpis f (genitive Alpis); third declension

1. Alps (usually plural)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	Alpis	Alpēs
genitive	Alpis	Alpium
dative	Alpī	Alpibus
accusative	Alpem	Alpēs Alpīs
ablative	Alpe	Alpibus
vocative	Alpis	Alpēs

References

• “Alpis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Alpis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old English

Etymology

Latin Alpis

Proper noun

Alpis

1. the Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Æt þǣm ende, hit beliċġað ðā beorgas, þe man hǣt Alpis: þā onginnað westane fram þǣm Wendelsǣ, in Narbonense þǣre ðēode and endiað eft ēast in Dalmatia þǣm lande, æt þǣm sǣ.

     At the end extend the mountains known as the Alps; they begin in the west of the Mediterranean, in Gallia Narbonensis, and end at the eastern sea in the land of Dalmatia.

Paelignian

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps related to Latin Alpius and Oscan Alfius.

Proper noun

Alpis m (nominative singular)

1. a Paelignian family name
   • Inscription from a bronze plate:

     st. ponties
     n. ponties
     v. alpis,
     tr. apidis.
     iouiois
     puclois sest.a.plens

     • Translation by Rex Wallace

       St. Pontius/ N. Pontius, V. Alpius/Tr. Apidius set up (i.e. dedicated) (this plate) to the sons of Jove.

References

• Robert Seymour Conway (1897), The Italic Dialects‎ (overall work in English), Cambridge University Press, page 599
• Rex Wallace (1984), The Sabellian Languages‎ (quotation in English; overall work in English), page 77
• Olli Salomies (2012), “The Nomina of the Samnites. A Checklist”, in Arctos – Acta Philologica Fennica‎, volume 46, →DOI, →ISSN, page 142