different between characteristicness vs vulpine

English

Etymology

characteristic +? -ness

Noun

characteristicness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being characteristic.

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vulp?nus (“foxy, fox-like”), from vulp?s, earlier volp?s (“fox”), from Proto-Indo-European *wl(o)p- (“fox”). Cognate with Welsh llywarn (“fox”), Ancient Greek ?????? (al?p?x), Armenian ?????? (a?u?s), Albanian dhelpër, Lithuanian vilpiš?s (“wildcat”), Sanskrit ????? (lop??a, “jackal, fox”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?lpa?n/

Adjective

vulpine (comparative more vulpine, superlative most vulpine)

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

Translations

Noun

vulpine (plural vulpines)

1. Any of certain canids called foxes (including the true foxes, the arctic fox and the grey fox); distinguished from the canines, which are regarded as similar to the dog and wolf.
   • 1980, Michael Wilson Fox, The Soul of the Wolf, unnumbered page,

     The family Canidae consists of two main subgroups, the vulpines (foxes) and the canines (wolves, coyotes, jackals, and dogs), and some intermediate “fox-dog” forms from South America.

2. A person considered vulpine (cunning); a fox.

See also

• canine
• lupine
• Vulpini (tribe within subfamily Caninae)

Anagrams

• liven up

French

Adjective

vulpine

1. feminine singular of vulpin

Latin

Adjective

vulp?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of vulp?nus