alpine
English
Etymology
From LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#ALPINE Alpīnus, from Alpēs (“the Alps”). Cognates include French alpin.
Pronunciation
Adjective
alpine (comparative more alpine, superlative most alpine)Category:English lemmas#ALPINECategory:English adjectives#ALPINECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ALPINECategory:Pages with entries#ALPINECategory:Pages with 5 entries#ALPINE
- Of, relating to, or inhabiting mountains, especially above the timberline.
- Synonym: montaneCategory:English links with manual fragments#ALPINE
- alpine snowsCategory:English terms with collocations#ALPINE; alpine plantsCategory:English terms with collocations#ALPINE
- 1910, William Robinson, “Forewords to new edition”, in Alpine Flowers for Gardens: Rock, Wall, Marsh Plants, and Mountain Shrubs, 4th edition, John Murray, page ix-x:
- What are alpine plants? The word alpine is used to denote the plants that grow naturally on all high mountain-chains, whether they spring from hot tropical plains or from green northern pastures. Above the cultivated land these flowers begin to occur on the fringes of the stately woods; they are seen in multitudes in the vast pastures which clothe many great mountain-chains, enamelling their soft verdure; and also where neither grass nor loose herbage can exist; or where feeble world-heat is quenched and mountains are crumbled into ghastly slopes of shattered rock by the contending forces of heat and cold, even there, amid the glaciers, they spring from Nature's ruined battle-ground, as if the mother of earth-life had sent up her loveliest children to plead with the spirits of destruction. Alpine plants fringe the vast fields of snow and ice of the high mountains, and at great elevations have often scarcely time to flower and ripen a few seeds before they are again imbedded in the snow; […]Category:English terms with quotations#ALPINE
- (sometimes specifically) Alternative letter-case form of Alpine: Of, relating to, or inhabiting the Alps, a large mountain range in Europe.
- (skiingCategory:en:Skiing#ALPINE) Of or relating to slalom and downhill skiing.
- Coordinate term: Nordic
Derived terms
- afroalpine
- alpine accentor
- alpine anemone
- alpine bullhead
- alpine butterfly bend
- alpine butterfly knot
- alpine chough
- alpine club-moss
- alpine clubmoss
- alpine club moss
- alpine coil
- alpine combined
- Alpine County
- alpine fir
- alpine fleabane
- alpine hawkweed
- alpine lady's-mantle
- alpinely
- alpine marmot
- alpine meadow lizard
- alpine-meadow lizard
- alpine newt
- alpine pasqueflower
- alpine salamander
- alpine saxifrage
- alpine skier
- alpine skiing
- alpine snowboard
- alpine snowboarder
- alpine snowboarding
- alpinesque
- alpine start
- alpinism
- alpinist
- Calpine
- para-alpine
- para alpine skiing
- semialpine
Translations
Noun
alpine (plural alpines)Category:English lemmas#ALPINECategory:English nouns#ALPINECategory:English countable nouns#ALPINECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ALPINECategory:Pages with entries#ALPINECategory:Pages with 5 entries#ALPINE
- (botanyCategory:en:Botany#ALPINE) Any of several plants, native to mountain habitats, often grown in rock gardens.
- 1991, Jack Elliott, Alpines in the Open Garden, Christopher Helm, →ISBN, page 64:
- There can be little doubt that the autumn-flowering gentians are the elite of late-flowering alpines, but alas they can only be enjoyed by those gardeners with an acid soil, unless they can be grown in containers.Category:English terms with quotations#ALPINE
Translations
References
- ↑ Hurd, Seth P. (1847), “Alpine”, in “False Pronunciation”, in A Grammatical Corrector; or, A Vocabulary of the Common Errors of Speech, Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co, →OCLC, page 78.
Anagrams
Category:English relational adjectives#ALPINEDutch
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Dutch terms borrowed from French#ALPINECategory:Dutch terms derived from French#ALPINE alpin, alpine.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɑlˈpi.nə/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#ALPINE
Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#ALPINEAudio: (file) - Hyphenation: al‧pi‧ne
- Rhymes: -inəCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/inə#ALPINE
Adjective
alpine (comparative alpiner, superlative meest alpine or alpinest)Category:Dutch lemmas#ALPINECategory:Dutch adjectives#ALPINECategory:Dutch adjectives with red links in their headword lines#ALPINECategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#ALPINECategory:Pages with entries#ALPINECategory:Pages with 5 entries#ALPINE
- alternative form of alpien
Declension
| Declension of alpine | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | alpine | |||
| inflected | alpine | |||
| comparative | alpiner | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | alpine | alpiner | het alpinest het alpineste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | alpine | alpinere | alpineste |
| n. sing. | alpine | alpiner | alpineste | |
| plural | alpine | alpinere | alpineste | |
| definite | alpine | alpinere | alpineste | |
| partitive | alpines | alpiners | — | |
Derived terms
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
alpineCategory:French non-lemma forms#ALPINECategory:French adjective forms#ALPINECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#ALPINECategory:Pages with entries#ALPINECategory:Pages with 5 entries#ALPINE
Italian
Adjective
alpine f plCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#ALPINECategory:Italian adjective forms#ALPINECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#ALPINECategory:Pages with entries#ALPINECategory:Pages with 5 entries#ALPINE
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
alpīneCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#ALPINECategory:Latin adjective forms#ALPINECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#ALPINECategory:Pages with entries#ALPINECategory:Pages with 5 entries#ALPINE