viverra

See also: Viverra

English

Noun

viverra (plural viverras)

1. (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

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wer-; compare Proto-Celtic *wiweros.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wiːˈwɛr.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [viˈvɛr.ra]

Noun

vīverra f (genitive vīverrae); first declension

1. a ferret

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vīverra	vīverrae
genitive	vīverrae	vīverrārum
dative	vīverrae	vīverrīs
accusative	vīverram	vīverrās
ablative	vīverrā	vīverrīs
vocative	vīverra	vīverrae

Derived terms

• vīverrīnus

Descendants

• Dalmatian: viala
• → Russian: виверра (viverra)
• → Translingual: Viverra

References

• “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.