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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Lucretius|origins=la āla, la pēs}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈaː.lɪ.peːs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈaː.li.pes]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''ālipēs''' (genitive ālipedis); third-declension one-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)
+ Valerius Flaccus has the ablative ''ālipedī''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is a compound of [[āla]] “wing” and [[pēs]] “foot”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Etymonline explains ⟨āla⟩ from ⟨*axla⟩, originally the joint of the wing or arm, from [[ine-pro|*aks-|t=axis]].^(Etymonline) De Vaan traces ⟨pēs⟩ to [[ine-pro|*pṓds|t=foot]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Lucretius, of swift motion.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Lucretius 96–55 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ Poetic and rare, never in Horace according to Lewis & Short, it meant with wings on the feet, wing-footed, as of Mercury in Ovid, and moving with the speed of flight, fleet, of horses and chariots, as in Lucretius and Virgil.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) As a noun it was the wing-footed god, Mercury, in Ovid, and in poetry a horse, as in Virgil and Statius.^(OLD 2012)
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+ British Medieval Latin used it for a swift-footed steed.^(DMLBS)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of swiftness.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of horses.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of Mercury.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # Wing-footed.^(OLD 2012)
+ # [[m|en|fleet|alt=Fleet]], swift as flight.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ===Noun===
+ # Mercury, ''(poetic)'' a [[m|en|horse]], steed.^(OLD 2012)^(DMLBS)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[āla]]
+ * [[pēs]]
+ * [[āliger]]
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+ ==Usage notes==
+ A separate, rare ''alipēs'' “without grease, fatless” is a borrowing of [[grc|ἀλιπής|tr=alipḗs]].^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}