different between ibex vs vibex

English

Etymology

From Latin ?bex (“chamois”), possibly from Iberian or Aquitanian; akin to Old Spanish bezerro (“bull”) (modern becerro (“yearling”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?b?ks/

Noun

ibex (plural ibex or ibexes or ibices)

1. A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species Capra ibex.

Translations

Anagrams

• Xibe, exbi-

Latin

Etymology

Loanword of uncertain origin; suggested to be from a pre-Latin substrate language spoken in the Alps, as the ibex is native to the mountain range. If an Indo-European language, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(h?)eb?- (“climbing”).

Or, possibly of Iberian or Aquitanian origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?i?.beks/, [?i?b?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?i.beks/, [?i?b?ks]

Noun

?bex m (genitive ?bicis); third declension

1. chamois

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• (Late Latin) hybicum

Descendants

• Asturian: robizu, rebezu
• English: ibex
• Galician: rebezo
• Romanian: ibex
• Spanish: ibex, íbice, rebeco, robezo

References

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

Spanish

Noun

ibex m (plural ibex)

1. ibex

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vibex (“the mark of a blow”).

Noun

vibex (plural vibices)

1. (medicine) An extensive patch of subcutaneous extravasation of blood.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *weyb-, *weyp- (“to oscillate, swing”). Compare Latin vibr? (“I shake, brandish”).

Noun

v?bex f (genitive v?b?cis); third declension

1. (pathology) wound left by a lash, weal or welt

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• vibex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vibex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette