different between adepts vs adeps

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æd.?pts/

Noun

adepts

1. plural of adept

Anagrams

• pasted

Swedish

Noun

adepts

1. indefinite genitive singular of adept

Anagrams

• spadet

English

Etymology

From Latin adeps (“fat, lard”).

Noun

adeps (uncountable)

1. (physiology) Soft or liquid animal fat.

Synonyms

• (soft or liquid fat): lard

Related terms

• adipose

Translations

Anagrams

• Spade, apsed, paeds, pedas, spade

Latin

Alternative forms

• adips

Etymology

Possibly from Ancient Greek ??????? (áleiphar) (with "d" for "l").

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.deps/, [?äd??ps?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.deps/, [???d??ps]

Noun

adeps m (genitive adipis); third declension

1. fat, lard, grease
2. corpulence, obesity
3. sapwood

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

References

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