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vipereus
vipereus
Latin
Adjective
vīpereus m (feminine vīperea, neuter vīpereum); first/second declension
- of or pertaining to a viper or snake; snaky
- Seneca the Younger, Hercules Furens, line 88:
- Viperea saevae verbera incutiant manus.
- Let their [the Eumenides'] savage hands brandish snaky lashes.
- Viperea saevae verbera incutiant manus.
- Seneca the Younger, Hercules Furens, line 88:
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | vīpereus | vīperea | vīpereum | vīpereī | vīpereae | vīperea | |
| genitive | vīpereī | vīpereae | vīpereī | vīpereōrum | vīpereārum | vīpereōrum | |
| dative | vīpereō | vīpereō | vīpereīs | ||||
| accusative | vīpereum | vīpeream | vīpereum | vīpereōs | vīpereās | vīperea | |
| ablative | vīpereō | vīpereā | vīpereō | vīpereīs | |||
| vocative | vīperee | vīperea | vīpereum | vīpereī | vīpereae | vīperea | |
References
- vipereus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vipereus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vipereus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.