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- Latin · borrowed fromvulpīnus“foxy, fox-like”
- English todayvulpinous
From vulpine + -ous, borrowed from Latin vulpīnus (“foxy, fox-like”), from vulpēs, earlier volpēs (“fox”).
Words from the same roots
Latinvulpīnus all →
vulpinepulvinonevulpinic acid
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.