vulpine

Senso (Inglese)

Adj

1. Pertaining to a fox.
2. Having the characteristics of a fox; foxlike; cunning.

Noun

1. Any of certain canids called foxes (including true foxes, arctic foxes and grey foxes), distinguished from canines, which are regarded as similar to dogs and wolves.
2. A person considered cunning.

Concetti

volpino

🦊

furbo

scaltro

astuto

sinonimi

vulpecular

artful

wily

cunning

crafty

sly

astute

parlous

sharp

shrewd

subtile

subtle

pawky

foxlike

arch

slyish

cagey

canny

designing

guileful

insidious

leery

Traduzioni

vulpin

vosachtig

fuchsartig

kurnazca

vulpino

rusé

geslepen

listig

pícaro

zorruno

maco

vulpino

tilkilik kabilinden

ثعلبي

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈvʌlpaɪn/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine gallese: llywarn

Affine greco antico: ἀλώπηξ

Affine armeno: աղուէս

Affine albanese: dhelpër

Affine lituano: vilpišỹs

Affine sanscrito: लोपाश

In summary

Borrowed from Latin vulpīnus (“foxy, fox-like”), from vulpēs, earlier volpēs (“fox”), from Proto-Indo-European *wl(o)p- (“fox”). Cognate with Welsh llywarn (“fox”), Ancient Greek ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx), Armenian աղուէս (aġuēs), Albanian dhelpër, Lithuanian vilpišỹs (“wildcat”), Sanskrit लोपाश (lopāśa, “jackal, fox”).