rupes

From Latin rūpēs (“cliff”).

rupes

1. (astronomy, geology) An escarpment on another planet or a moon.

• Pre-Us, pures, purse, re-ups, reups, sprue, super, super-

• IPA^(key): /ʁyp/

rupes

1. second-person singular present indicative of ruper
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of ruper

• peurs
• pures
• repus
• super

From the root Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-, the same of rumpō (“I break”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈruː.peːs/

rūpēs f (genitive rūpis); third declension

1. cliff, rock

Third declension, alternative accusative singular in -im, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

• rūpicola
• rūpestris

• Aromanian: arup
• English: rupes
• Italian: rupe
• Spanish: rupe

• rupes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rupes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rupes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• rupes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette