alopeciayoudaoicibaDictYouDict[alopecia 词源字典]
alopecia: [14] This word appears to derive from the resemblance observed by the Greeks between baldness in human beings and mange in foxes. The Greek for ‘fox’ was alōpēx, hence alōpekía, borrowed into Latin as alopēcia. Alōpēx is related to Latin vulpēs ‘fox’, from which English gets vulpine ‘foxlike’ [17].
=> vulpine[alopecia etymology, alopecia origin, 英语词源]
VulpeculayoudaoicibaDictYouDict
constellation, Latin vulpecula, volpecula "little fox," diminutive of vulpes, volpes "fox" (see vulpine).
vulpine (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
"pertaining to a fox, fox-like," 1620s, from Latin vulpinus "of or pertaining to a fox," from vulpes, earlier volpes (genitive vulpis, volpis) "fox," from PIE *wlpe- "fox" (cognates: Greek alopex "fox").