rupes

From Latin rūpēs (“cliff”).

rupes

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ʁyp/

rupes

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

• peurs
• pures
• repus
• super

• rūpa (Apul.)^[1]

From a Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-(e)h₁-s (“cliff”),^[2] from the root *Hrewp- (“break”).

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

rūpēs f (genitive rūpis); third declension

1. cliff, rock
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.427–429:

     hīc portūs aliī effodiunt; hīc alta theātrīs
     fundāmenta locant aliī, immānīsque columnās
     rūpibus excīdunt, scaenīs decora alta futūrīs.

     Here some [workers] are excavating a harbor; there others lay deep foundations for theaters, and they are quarrying huge columns from the cliffs, lofty ornaments for future stages.

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• rumpō
• rupex

• 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.