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an⋅te⋅lope

  [an-tl-ohp]
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–noun, plural -lopes, (especially collectively) -lope.
1. any of several ruminants of the family Bovidae, chiefly of Africa and Asia, having permanent, hollow, unbranched horns.
2. leather made from the hide of such an animal.
3. pronghorn.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME antelop < MF < ML antalopus < MGk anthólops a fabulous beast described by Eustathius of Antioch (d. 337); orig. of word unknown

Related forms:
an⋅te⋅lo⋅pi⋅an, an⋅te⋅lo⋅pine  [an-tl-oh-pin, -pahyn] , adjective
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an·te·lope   (ān'tl-ōp')   
n.   pl. antelope or an·te·lopes

    1. Any of various swift-running ruminant mammals of the family Bovidae, native to Africa and Asia and having long horns and a slender build.

    2. An animal, such as the pronghorn, that resembles a true antelope.

  2. Leather made from the hide of the African and Asian ruminant.


[Middle English, heraldic beast, probably from Old French antelop, savage beast with sawlike horns, from Medieval Latin anthalopus, from Late Greek antholops.]
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Word Origin & History

antelope 
1417, from O.Fr. antelop, from M.L. ant(h)alopus, from Gk. antholops (attested in Eusebius of Antioch, c.336 C.E.), a fabulous animal haunting the banks of the Euphrates, very savage, hard to catch and having long saw-like horns capable of cutting down trees. Original sense and language unknown (it looks like Gk. "flower-eye," as if from anthos + ops, but that may be a result of Gk. folk etymology). A heraldic animal, also known in M.L. as talopus and calopus, the name was applied in 1607 to a living type of deer-like mammal.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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