different between alpaca vs camelid

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æl?pæk?/
• Rhymes: -æk?

Noun

alpaca (plural alpacas or alpaca)

1. A sheep-like animal of the Andes, Vicugna pacos, in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña.
2. (uncountable) Wool from the alpaca.

Synonyms

• alpaco, paco (archaic)

Coordinate terms

• (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña ^{(Category: en:Camelids)}

Descendants

• ? Gujarati: ??????? (alp?k?)
• ? Thai: ??????? (an-bpaa-gâa)

Translations

Further reading

• alpaca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vicugna pacos on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?pa?.ka?/
• Hyphenation: al?pa?ca

Noun

alpaca m (plural alpaca's, diminutive alpacaatje n)

1. alpaca

Derived terms

• alpacawol

See also

• lama

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish, possibly via English, from Aymara allpaqa.

Noun

alpaca m (genitive singular alpaca, nominative plural alpacaí)

1. alpaca

Declension

Derived terms

• olann alpaca f (“alpaca wool”)

Mutation

Further reading

• “alpaca” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Alternative forms

• alpaga, alpagà

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al?pa.ka/
• Rhymes: -aka
• IPA^(key): (alternative pronunciation) /?al.pa.ka/
• Hyphenation: al?pà?ca, àl?pa?ca

Noun

alpaca m (invariable)

1. alpaca (Vicugna pacos)
2. (uncountable) alpaca (wool)
3. (uncountable) A fabric made out of a mixture of wool and cotton.

Further reading

• alpaca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aka

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Noun

alpaca f (plural alpacas)

1. alpaca (Vicugna pacos, a camelid of the Andes)
2. alpaca (wool from the alpaca)

Etymology 2

Noun

alpaca f (uncountable)

1. nickel silver (alloy of copper, zinc and nickel)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French alpaga, alpaca, from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.pa?ka/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: al?pa?ca

Noun

alpaca f (plural alpacale)

1. alpaca (animal)
2. alpaca (wool)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al?paka/, [al?pa.ka]

Noun

alpaca f (plural alpacas)

1. alpaca

Derived terms

• alpaquero

Descendants

All borrowings ultimately from Spanish, though for some direct paths are uncertain.

• ? Afrikaans: alpakka
• ? Arabic: ?????????? (?albaka)
• ? Armenian: ?????? (alpaka)
• ? Belarusian: ??????? (al?paka)
• ? Catalan: alpaca
• ? Czech: alpaka
• ? Danish: alpaka
• ? Dutch: alpaca
• ? English: alpaca
  • ? Gujarati: ??????? (alp?k?)
  • ? Thai: ??????? (an-bpaa-gâa)
• ? French: alpaga
  • ? Romanian: alpaca
  • ? Russian: ??????? (al?paga)
    • ? Armenian: ?????? (alpaga)
• ? Faroese: alpaka
• ? Finnish: alpakka
• ? Georgian: ?????? (al?a?a)
• ? German: Alpaka
• ? Greek: ?????? (alpáka)
• ? Hungarian: alpaka
• ? Irish: alpaca (possibly via English)
• ? Italian: alpaca
• ? Japanese: ???? (arupaka)
• ? Korean: ??? (alpaka)
• ? Macedonian: ?????? (alpaka)
• ? Norwegian: alpakka
• ? Persian: ??????? (âlpâkâ)
• ? Polish: alpaca
• ? Portuguese: alpaca
• ? Russian: ??????? (al?paka)
• ? Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic: ??????
  • Latin: alpaka
• ? Slovene: alpaca
• ? Swedish: alpacka
• ? Tagalog: alpaka
• ? Ukrainian: ??????? (al?paka)

Further reading

• “alpaca” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Noun

camelid (plural camelids)

1. (zoology) Any of a family of mammals including the camel, llama, alpaca, guanaco, and vicuña.

Hyponyms

• (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña ^{(Category: en:Camelids)}

Further reading

• camelid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• claimed, decimal, declaim, maliced, medical