adeps

Unadapted borrowing from Latin adeps (“fat, lard”).

adeps (uncountable)

1. (physiology) Soft or liquid animal fat.

• (soft or liquid fat): lard

• adipose

• Spade, apsed, paeds, pedas, spade

• adips

Unknown. Possibly cognate with or borrowed from Umbrian 𐌀𐌛𐌄𐌐𐌄𐌔 (ařepes), perhaps derived from Proto-Italic *ad-leipā, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp-, but this is disputed.^[1] Alternatively the Italic words are borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄλειφαρ (áleiphar) or a related Greek word.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.dɛps]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.deps]

adeps m (genitive adipis); third declension

1. fat, lard, grease
2. corpulence, obesity
3. sapwood

Third-declension noun.

• → English: adeps (learned)

• “adeps”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “adeps”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "adeps", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “adeps”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.