anguis

See also: Anguis

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *anɣʷis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis (snake). Cognates include Old Prussian angis, Old Armenian աւձ (awj), Old High German unc, unko (snake), and Old East Slavic ѫжь (ǫžĭ).

Pronunciation

Noun

anguis m or f (genitive anguis); third declension

  1. snake, serpent, dragon
  2. (astronomy) the constellation Hydra

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally ).

singular plural
nominative anguis anguēs
genitive anguis anguium
dative anguī anguibus
accusative anguem anguēs
anguīs
ablative angue
anguī
anguibus
vocative anguis anguēs

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References

  • anguis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • anguis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "anguis", 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)
  • anguis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • anguis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • anguis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 42

Middle English

Noun

anguis

  1. alternative form of angwissh