viverra
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See also: Viverra
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]viverra (plural viverras)
- (zoology, obsolete) An animal of the genus Viverra; a civet.
- 1829, John Wilkes, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, volume 24, page 410:
- Viverra tigrina, or yellowish-grey weasel. […] Mr. Pennant has referred it to the genus felis, but Mr. Schrader makes it a viverra.
- 1862, The Medical Times and Gazette, volume 2, page 269:
- That curious animal, the basset (Bassaris astuta), which has alternately been associated by zoologists with the Ursidæ and Viverridæ, has blood corpuscles more agreeing in size with those of the bears, and consequently distinctly smaller than those of the viverras.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wer-; compare Proto-Celtic *wiweros.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wiːˈwɛr.ra]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [viˈvɛr.ra]
Noun
[edit]vīverra f (genitive vīverrae); first declension
- a ferret
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | vīverra | vīverrae |
genitive | vīverrae | vīverrārum |
dative | vīverrae | vīverrīs |
accusative | vīverram | vīverrās |
ablative | vīverrā | vīverrīs |
vocative | vīverra | vīverrae |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “viverra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vīverra”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 685
- "viverra", 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)
- viverra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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