Hirpini

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɪrˈpiː.niː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [irˈpiː.ni]

Hirpīnī m pl (genitive Hirpīnōrum); second declension

1. A Samnite tribe who inhabited a region in southern Italy.

Second-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

• Hirpīnia

• “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