Hirpini

Latin

Etymology

From an Oscan word meaning wolf. Compare Latin hirpus (“wolf”) and hirpex (“harrow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hirˈpiː.niː/, [hɪrˈpiːniː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /irˈpi.ni/, [irˈpiːni]

Proper noun

Hirpīnī m pl (genitive Hirpīnōrum); second declension

1. A Samnite tribe who inhabited a region in southern Italy.
2. (extensively) The region populated by that tribe

   in Hirpinis ― in Hirpini's land

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	Hirpīnī
Genitive	Hirpīnōrum
Dative	Hirpīnīs
Accusative	Hirpīnōs
Ablative	Hirpīnīs
Vocative	Hirpīnī
Locative	Hirpīnīs

Derived terms

• Hirpīnia

References

• “Hirpini”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Hirpini”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Hirpini”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly