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See also: Lepus
Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]
Unknown. Perhaps not an Indo-European word. It may be of Iberian origin, or else of Celtiberian substrate origin and related to Massaliot λεβηρίς (lebērís).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈle.pus/, [ˈɫ̪ɛpʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈle.pus/, [ˈlɛːpus]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun[edit]
lepus m (genitive leporis); third declension
- a hare
- Sextus videt leporem. ― Sextus sees the hare.
- a poisonous sea fish colored like the hare
- 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Nātūrālis Historia 32.3:
- Nōn sunt minus mīra quae dē lepore marīnō trāduntur.
- No less wonderful, too, are the particulars which we find stated relative to the sea-hare.
- Nōn sunt minus mīra quae dē lepore marīnō trāduntur.
- (astronomy) the constellation Lepus
- Hyginus, Dē Astronomiā :
- Leporis autem hanc historiam memoriae prōdidērunt.
- The following story of the Hare has been recorded.
- Leporis autem hanc historiam memoriae prōdidērunt.
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lepus | leporēs |
Genitive | leporis | leporum |
Dative | leporī | leporibus |
Accusative | leporem | leporēs |
Ablative | lepore | leporibus |
Vocative | lepus | leporēs |
Coordinate terms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Corsican: levra, leura, lepra, levura, lefra, levru
- Dalmatian: lipro
- Eastern Romance:
- Gallurese: lepparu
- Italian: lepre
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: liebre
- Old French: lievre, levre
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: llebre
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: lebre
- Old Spanish: liebre
- Piedmontese: levr
- Padanian:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: lèpere, lèpuri
- Sassarese: lepparu
- Sicilian: lepru, dièvuru, lebbru
- → Maltese: liebru
- Venetian: liéore, liévore, jévre
- → Albanian: lepur
- Translingual: Lepus
References[edit]
- “lepus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lepus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lepus 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)
- lepus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Lithuanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adjective[edit]
lepùs m (feminine lepì) stress pattern 4
- fastidious, spoilt
- Jis lepus ir visada galvoja tik apie save
- He is so fastidious and always thinking only about himself.
- Jis lepus ir visada galvoja tik apie save
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