Etymology

rupestrian

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Today it means: Occurring, or executed on rocks, or on cave walls Full definition →

Latin rūpes
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromrūpes“rock”
  2. English todayrupestrian

From New Latin rupestris, from Latin rūpes (“rock”).

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.