Latin edit

Etymology edit

From an Oscan word meaning wolf. Compare Latin hirpus (wolf) and hirpex (harrow).

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Hirpīnī m pl (genitive Hirpīnōrum); second declension

  1. A Samnite tribe who inhabited a region in southern Italy.

Declension edit

Second-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative Hirpīnī
Genitive Hirpīnōrum
Dative Hirpīnīs
Accusative Hirpīnōs
Ablative Hirpīnīs
Vocative Hirpīnī
Locative Hirpīnīs

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Hirpini”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Hirpini”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Hirpini”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly