# Alpes
## French
### Etymology

From Latin Alpēs, q.v.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /alp/
* Audio:(file)
* (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) IPA: /alpə/

### Proper noun

Alpes f pl (plural only)
* Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

#### Derived terms

* Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
* Alpes-Maritimes
* Basses-Alpes
* cerfeuil des Alpes
* cor des Alpes
* euphraise des Alpes
* fenouil des Alpes
* Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
* Rhône-Alpes
* soldanelle des Alpes
* thésium des Alpes

#### Related terms

* alpestre
* Alpin
* alpin

#### Descendants

* → 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)

### Anagrams

* lapes, pâles, pelas

## German
### Noun

Alpes m
* genitive singular of Alp

## Latin
### Etymology

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”)).
Compare Old Saxon elbon (“Alps”, plural), Old High German alba (“alpine pasture”), Middle High German albe (“mountain meadow, high mountain, mountain range”), whence German Alb (“mountainous area”). Potentially related to Albanus or albus (“white”).

### Pronunciation

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

### Proper noun

Alpēs f pl (genitive Alpium); third declension
* the Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)
* (with adjective) a particular portion of the Alps

#### Usage notes

Only rarely found as the singular Alpis.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem), with locative, plural only.

#### Derived terms

* alpicus
* alpīnus

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: Alpe
* → Arabic: جِبَال اَلْأَلْب (jibāl al-ʔalb)
* → Armenian: Ալպեր (Alper)
* → Catalan: Alps
* → Dutch: Alpen
** Afrikaans: Alpe
** → Indonesian: Alpen
* → Esperanto: Alpoj
* → French: Alpes
** → 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)
* → German: Alpen
* → Greek: Άλπεις (Álpeis)
* → Hungarian: Alpok, ⇒ alpesi
* → Irish: Alpa
* → Italian: Alpi
* → Norman: Alpes
* → Occitan: Aups, Alps
* → Spanish: Alpes
* → Portuguese: Alpes

### References

* “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.
* ↑ “Alp”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “Alp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

## Middle English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French Alpes, from Latin Alpēs.

### Proper noun

Alpes
* Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

#### Descendants

* English: Alps
** → Hindi: ऐल्प्स (ailps)
** → Japanese: アルプス (Arupusu)
** → Urdu: الپس (alps)

#### References

* “Alpes, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Norman
### Etymology

From Latin Alpēs.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Jersey):(file)

### Noun

L's Alpes f pl
* (Jersey) Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin Alpēs.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈaw.pis/ [ˈaʊ̯.pis]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈaw.pis/ [ˈaʊ̯.pis]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈaw.piʃ/ [ˈaʊ̯.piʃ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈaw.pes/ [ˈaʊ̯.pes]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈal.pɨʃ/ [ˈaɫ.pɨʃ]
* Hyphenation: Al‧pes

### Proper noun

Alpes m pl
* Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

#### Related terms

* alpinismo

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Alpēs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈalpes/ [ˈal.pes]
* Rhymes: -alpes
* Syllabification: Al‧pes

### Proper noun

Los Alpes m pl
* Alps (a mountain range in Western Europe)

#### Derived terms

* Alpes del sur
* Alpes neozelandeses
* Altos Alpes
* trompa de los Alpes

#### Related terms

* alpino