cervine

From Latin cervīnus, from cervus (“deer”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsəːvʌɪn/

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cervine (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of deer; deer-like.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 495:

     To which she replied sweetly, shaking that fine cervine head: ‘At any moment tell yourself that things are much better that they have any right to be.’

cervine (plural cervines)

1. A deer of the subfamily Cervinae; an Old World deer.
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 106:

     The cervines are arguably Europe's greatest mammalian success story: the earliest type, Cervavitus, first appeared about 10 million years ago—in Europe.

• evernic, revince

cervine

1. feminine plural of cervino

• cernevi, vernice, vincere

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɛrˈwiː.nɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃerˈviː.ne]

cervīne

1. vocative masculine singular of cervīnus