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verpus
verpus
Latin
Adjective
verpus m (feminine verpa, neuter verpum); first/second declension
- (vulgar, of a ****) erect
- (of a person or a ****) circumcised
Declension
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | verpus | verpa | verpum | verpī | verpae | verpa | |
| genitive | verpī | verpae | verpī | verpōrum | verpārum | verpōrum | |
| dative | verpō | verpō | verpīs | ||||
| accusative | verpum | verpam | verpum | verpōs | verpās | verpa | |
| ablative | verpō | verpā | verpō | verpīs | |||
| vocative | verpe | verpa | verpum | verpī | verpae | verpa | |
Noun
verpus m (genitive verpī); second declension
- A circumcised person, a Jew
- Quaesitum ad fontem solos deducere verpos - Juvenal
- To guide only the circumcised [i.e. Jews] to the fountain that they seek.
Declension
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | verpus | verpī |
| genitive | verpī | verpōrum |
| dative | verpō | verpīs |
| accusative | verpum | verpōs |
| ablative | verpō | verpīs |
| vocative | verpe | verpī |
References
- verpus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- verpus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- VERPUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “verpus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.