vipera

See also: Vipera and viperă

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvipɛrɒ]
• Hyphenation: vi‧pe‧ra
• Rhymes: -rɒ

Noun

vipera (plural viperák)

1. 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 Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Interlingua

Noun

vipera (plural viperas)

1. viper

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vīpera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.pe.ra/
• Rhymes: -ipera
• Hyphenation: vì‧pe‧ra

Noun

vipera f (plural vipere)

1. viper, adder
2. (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

Contraction of *vivipera, an alteration of vivipara, the feminine of vīviparus (literally “livebearing”), referring to the young being born alive and whole (as opposed to being formed in a laid egg), from vīvus (“alive”) + pariō (“to give birth”) + -us (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwiː.pɛ.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈviː.pe.ra]

Noun

vīpera f (genitive vīperae); first declension

1. adder, snake, serpent, viper
2. (figurative) someone who is malicious, vicious, treacherous
   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, 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?”

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vīpera	vīperae
genitive	vīperae	vīperārum
dative	vīperae	vīperīs
accusative	vīperam	vīperās
ablative	vīperā	vīperīs
vocative	vīpera	vīperae

Derived terms

• convīperīnī
• convīperīnus
• vīperālis
• vīpereālis
• vīpereē
• vīpereus
• vīperīna
• vīperīnus
• vīperius

Descendants

• Aromanian: vipirã
• Asturian: víbora
• Catalan: vibra, víbria
• Emilian: véppera, véppra
• Franco-Provençal: vipèra
• 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
• Old Northern French: wivre
  • → Middle English: wyver, wyvere
    • English: wyvern
      • → Irish: vuibhearn
      • → Spanish: guiverno
• → Old French: vipre
  • Middle French: vipere
    • → English: viper
    • French: vipère
• Portuguese: víbora
• Romanian: viperă
• Sicilian: lìpira, vìpira
• Sardinian: pìbera, pìbara, pìpera
• Spanish: víbora
• Translingual: Vipera
• Venetan: 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.