hirpus

Latin

Alternative forms

  • irpus

Etymology

From Sabine,[1] which according to de Vaan could be related to hircus (“he-goat”), though this is semantically tenuous and both words could easily be of local substrate origin.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

hirpus m (genitive hirpī); second declension

  1. wolf

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative hirpus hirpī
genitive hirpī hirpōrum
dative hirpō hirpīs
accusative hirpum hirpōs
ablative hirpō hirpīs
vocative hirpe hirpī

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “hirpus”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 296
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “hircus (> Derivatives > maybe hirpus 'wolf' (Samnitic))”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 286

Further reading

  • “hirpus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "hirpus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • hirpus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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