caprine

• Most commonly IPA^(key): /ˈkæpˌɹaɪn/; sometimes IPA^(key): /ˈkæpˌɹin/, /ˈkæp.ɹɪn/

Borrowed from Latin caprīnus. The taxonomic sense is a semantic loan from translingual Caprinae.

• caprinic

caprine (comparative more caprine, superlative most caprine)

2. Of or relating to Caprinae (goats, sheep, and certain wild relatives).

   Synonyms: caprid, caprine (caprid sense)

   Hypernyms: ungulate < mammalian < vertebrate < animalian

   Hyponyms: caprine (goat sense), ovine

   2. (often specifically) Of or relating to Capra (goats).

      Hypernyms: caprid, caprine (caprid sense) < ungulate < mammalian < vertebrate < animalian

      Coordinate term: ovine

4. Goatlike: goatish; goaty.

caprine (plural caprines)

2. A caprid: a (domestic or wild) goat or sheep: any member of the tribe Caprini (corresponding to the archaic taxon Capridae).

   Synonyms: caprid, goat antelope, goat-antelope

   Hypernyms: bovid < ungulate < mammal < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature

   Hyponyms: caprine (goat sense), ovine, caprovine, ovicaprid, wild goat

   • 2008, Charles R. Peters, et al., 3: Paleoecology of the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem, A. R. E. Sinclair, Craig Packer, Simon A. R. Mduma, John M. Fryxell (editors, Serengeti III: Human Impacts on Ecosystem Dynamics, page 77,

     By the late Holocene, most archaeological sites in the central Rift Valley display a significant pastoralist occupation and are dominated by cattle and caprines, while others preserve an abundant wild grassland fauna with substantial numbers of cattle and caprines (Gifford, Isaac, and Nelson 1980).

   • 2010, Aharon Sasson, Animal Husbandry in Ancient Israel: A Zooarchaeological Perspective on Livestock Exploitation, Herd Management and Economic Strategies, page 47:

     For instance, the graph of the Early Bronze Age sites shows that the relative frequency of caprines in regions 1, 2, and 3 does not differ significantly.

   • 2011, Joy McCorriston, Pilgrimage and Household in the Ancient Near East, page 123:

     Middle seventh-millennium BC domesticated caprines near the Red Sea coast may be introductions from across the Red Sea or along its coastal margins from the north (Vermeersch et al. 1994: 39), perhaps emphasizing the Red Sea littoral as a distinctive cultural area rather than a barrier or route to somewhere else.

   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 105:

     The caprines (a group that includes the goats, sheep and ibex) originated about 11 million years ago in either Africa or Europe, the earliest fossils coming from Africa and Greece.

   2. (often specifically) A (domestic or wild) goat: any of certain caprids, the ones in the genus Capra.

      Hypernyms: caprid, caprine (caprid sense), goat antelope, goat-antelope < bovid < ungulate < mammal < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature

      Hyponym: wild goat

      Coordinate term: ovine

• Caprinae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

caprine (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of caprin.

• Pricean, encarpi

caprine

1. feminine singular of caprin

caprine

1. feminine plural of caprino

• capirne, carpine, encarpi

caprīne

1. vocative masculine singular of caprīnus

• IPA^(key): [kaˈprine]

caprine f

1. inflection of caprină:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular