Translation
fox
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Word origin
Straight from Latin vulpes, the fox. The Latin word left almost nothing in English beyond the technical adjective vulpine, so the root has to be learned rather than guessed, unlike most of the animal names in this chapter.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- vulpes
- English cognates
- vulpine
Examples
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A fox lives in the wood next to the village.
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The fox has a long tail and sharp teeth.
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In the fairy tales the fox is always the craftiest animal.
Every language that tells stories gives the fox the same part, and Esperanto inherited the casting along with the word. Ezopo - Aesop - is the source most of Europe reads it from, and his fox is the one who cannot reach the grapes and decides they were sour anyway, an image that survives in Esperanto as . A clever person is , and the adjective carries the same faint accusation as English "foxy".
The female is o and the cub is o, both by the ordinary suffixes; the den is o. This chapter's story puts one in a campsite, raiding the butter while the campers sleep, which is roughly what a real fox does with a real tent.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 19, lesson 10: vulpo, plado, gliti and 7 more words.