different between vulpine vs louche

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French louche.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /lu??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /lu?/
• Rhymes: -u??

Adjective

louche (comparative more louche, superlative most louche)

1. Of questionable taste or morality; decadent.
2. Not reputable or decent.
3. Unconventional and slightly disreputable in an attractive manner; raffish, rakish.

Verb

louche (third-person singular simple present louches, present participle louching, simple past and past participle louched)

1. (transitive) To make (an alcoholic beverage, e.g. absinthe or ouzo) cloudy by mixing it with water, due to the presence of anethole. This is known as the ouzo effect.

Translations

Further reading

• Ouzo effect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French louche, from Latin lusca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu.??/
• Hyphenation: lou?che

Adjective

louche (comparative loucher, superlative meest louche or louchest)

1. seedy, fishy, shady

Inflection

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu?/

Etymology 1

From Old French lousche, from Latin lusca, feminine of luscus (“one-eyed”) ( > Old French lois). Compare Italian losco and Portuguese lusco.

Adjective

louche (plural louches)

1. (dated) cross-eyed
2. (by extension) cloudy; obscure
3. (figuratively) shady; dubious; seedy; shifty

Derived terms

Noun

louche f (plural louches)

1. (in a liquid) cloudiness due to a suspension of fine particles

Descendants

• ? English: louche
• ? Dutch: louche

Etymology 2

A dialectal (Norman-Picard) form of Old French louce, loce, from Old Frankish *l?tija, from Proto-Germanic *hl?þþij?. Cognate with Dutch loet (“a tool to scrape or shovel”). More at loot.

Noun

louche f (plural louches)

1. ladle

Etymology 3

Regular conjugation of -er verb loucher

Verb

louche

1. first-person singular present indicative of loucher
2. third-person singular present indicative of loucher
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of loucher
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of loucher
5. second-person singular imperative of loucher

Further reading

• “louche” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).