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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. (Greek mythology) Hydra
    • Florus, Epitome of Roman History 1.13.19-20:
      Cum Pyrrhus “video me” inquit “plane procreatum Herculis semine, cui quasi ab angue Lernaeo tot caesa hostium capita quasi de sanguine suo renascuntur.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. (astronomy) the constellation Hydra

Declension

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

More information singular, plural ...

Synonyms

Derived terms

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
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Middle English

Noun

anguis

  1. alternative form of angwissh

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