cervine

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsəːvʌɪn/

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Adjective

cervine (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to a 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.’

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• evernic, revince

Italian

Adjective

cervine

1. feminine plural of cervino

Anagrams

• cernevi, vernice, vincere

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kerˈu̯iː.ne/, [kɛrˈu̯iːnɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃerˈvi.ne/, [t͡ʃerˈviːne]

Adjective

cervīne

1. vocative masculine singular of cervīnus