rupes

From Latin rūpēs (“cliff”).

rupes

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ʁyp/

rupes

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

• peurs
• pures
• repus
• super

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈruː.peːs/, [ˈruːpeːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈru.pes/, [ˈruːpes]

rūpēs f (genitive rūpis); third declension

1. cliff, rock

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• rūpicola
• rūpestris

• Aromanian: arup
• → English: rupes
• Italian: rupe
• Romanian: Rupea
• 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• rupes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette