vipera
See also: Vipera and viperă
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈvipɛrɒ]
- Hyphenation: vi‧pe‧ra
- Rhymes: -rɒ
Noun
vipera (plural viperák)
- viper (a poisonous snake in the family Viperidae)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | vipera | viperák |
| accusative | viperát | viperákat |
| dative | viperának | viperáknak |
| instrumental | viperával | viperákkal |
| causal-final | viperáért | viperákért |
| translative | viperává | viperákká |
| terminative | viperáig | viperákig |
| essive-formal | viperaként | viperákként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | viperában | viperákban |
| superessive | viperán | viperákon |
| adessive | viperánál | viperáknál |
| illative | viperába | viperákba |
| sublative | viperára | viperákra |
| allative | viperához | viperákhoz |
| elative | viperából | viperákból |
| delative | viperáról | viperákról |
| ablative | viperától | viperáktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | viperáé | viperáké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | viperáéi | viperákéi |
| Possessive forms of vipera | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | viperám | viperáim |
| 2nd person sing. | viperád | viperáid |
| 3rd person sing. | viperája | viperái |
| 1st person plural | viperánk | viperáink |
| 2nd person plural | viperátok | viperáitok |
| 3rd person plural | viperájuk | viperáik |
Further reading
- vipera in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Interlingua
Noun
vipera (plural viperas)
- viper
Italian
Etymology
From Latin vīpera.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvi.pe.ra/
- Rhymes: -ipera
- Hyphenation: vì‧pe‧ra
Noun
vipera f (plural vipere)
- viper, adder
- (figurative) a catty person
Derived terms
- inviperire
Further reading
- vipera in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- parevi, periva, pervia, previa, veprai
Latin
Etymology
Possibly from vivus-pario, "one that gives live young"
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯iː.pe.ra/, [ˈu̯iːpɛrä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvi.pe.ra/, [ˈviːperä]
Noun
vīpera f (genitive vīperae); first declension
- adder, snake, serpent, viper
- (figurative) someone who is malicious, vicious, treacherous
- 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Matthew 3:7:
- prōgeniēs vīperārum quis dēmōnstrāvit vōbīs fugere ā futūrā īrā
- “[You] progeny of vipers! Who showed you [how/where] to flee from the coming wrath?”
- prōgeniēs vīperārum quis dēmōnstrāvit vōbīs fugere ā futūrā īrā
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vīpera | vīperae |
| Genitive | vīperae | vīperārum |
| Dative | vīperae | vīperīs |
| Accusative | vīperam | vīperās |
| Ablative | vīperā | vīperīs |
| Vocative | vīpera | vīperae |
Derived terms
- vīperālis
- vīpereus
- vīperīna
- vīperīnus
Descendants
- Aromanian: vipirã
- Asturian: víbora
- Catalan: vibra, víbria
- Franco-Provençal: vipèro
- Friulian: lipare, vipare
- Galician: víbora
- Istriot: beîpara
- Italian: vipera
- → Middle English: vipera
- → Middle High German: viper
- German: Viper
- Occitan: vipèra
- Old French: guivre, wivre
- French: vouivre
- → English: weever
- → Middle English: wyvere
- English: wyvern
- → Irish: vuibhearn
- → Spanish: guiverno
- English: wyvern
- → Old French: vipre
- Middle French: vipere
- → English: viper
- French: vipère
- Middle French: vipere
- Portuguese: víbora
- Romanian: viperă
- Sicilian: vìpira
- Sardinian: pìbera, pìbara, pìpera
- Spanish: víbora
- Translingual: Vipera
- Venetian: vìpera, vìpara, lìpera
- → Welsh: gwiber
References
- “vipera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vipera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vipera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette