vulpēs (a fox) From earliervolpēs Proto-Italic *wolpis Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl(o)p- *h₂ulp- ( “ (red) fox ” ) (compareSanskrit लोपाश ( lopāśá ) ,Breton louarn Lithuanian lãpė Ancient Greek ἀλώπηξ ( alṓpēx ) ,Persian روباه ( rubâh ) ), with an analogous gender change. Possibly a conflation with earlier words for "wolf"; seewĺ̥kʷos
vulpēs f genitive vulpis third declension
afox ,vixen ( figuratively ) smartness ,strategy ,quick thinking ,adaptability ,craftiness ,cunning ,cleverness ,wisdom a kind ofshark Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Aromanian:vulpi vulpe Catalan:volp Corsican:volpe vorpe volpi vulpi Dalmatian:bualp vualp Emilian:våulp Friulian:bolp volp Galician:golpe volpe Istriot:bulpo Istro-Romanian:vulpe Italian:volpe Ladin:volp bolp Neapolitan:vorpe Occitan:volp Piedmontese:vulp Romanian:vulpe hulpe вулпе ( vulpe ) —post-1930s Cyrillic spelling Romansh:vulp uolp ( Sursilvan ) ,vualp gualp ( Sutsilvan ) ,golp ( Surmiran ) ,vuolp ( Puter , Vallader ) Sicilian:vurpi gurpi vulpi gulpi Venetan:volp bolpe bolp → Esperanto:vulpo → Translingual:Vulpes “vulpes Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 ),A Latin Dictionary "vulpes ", in Charles du Fresne du Cange,Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis “vulpes ”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934 ),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette. 
