Loanword of uncertain origin; suggested to be from a pre-Latinsubstrate language spoken in the Alps,[1][2] as the ibex is native to the mountain range. If an Indo-European language, possibly fromProto-Indo-European*(h₁)ebʰ-(“climbing”).
“ibex”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
"ibex", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
^Watkins, Calvert (1985)The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
^Roberts, Edward A. (2014)A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, volume II, Xlibris Corporation,→ISBN
2015 November 23, “La pelota es de Florentino”, inEl País[1]:
El club se ha quedado sin más mensajes que la purpurina de las listas deForbes sobre los clubes más ricos del mundo, los Balones de Oro, la evangelización madridista con puentes en Indonesia o Australia y ese deslumbrante palco de lacasa blanca por el que desfilan políticos y empresarios de todos losibex de este mundo.
