See also: Anser

Danish edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

anser

  1. present tense of anse

French edit

Etymology edit

From anse (handle).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɑ̃.se/
  • (file)

Verb edit

anser

  1. (transitive) to fix a handle (to)

Conjugation edit

Further reading edit

Latin edit

 
anser (a goose)

Etymology edit

From Proto-Italic *hāns, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns. The form is possibly influenced by unrelated anas. Cognates include Sanskrit हंस (haṃsa), Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn), Russian гусь (gusʹ), Old Irish géiss, Old English gōs (English goose), and Albanian gatë (heron).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ānser m (genitive ānseris); third declension

  1. goose
    Synonym: auca
    • 59 BC–AD 17, Titus Livius, Ab urba condita 5.47.4:
      ānserēs nōn fefellēre, quibus sacrīs Jūnōnis in summā inopiā cibī tamen abstinēbātur.

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ānser ānserēs
Genitive ānseris ānserum
Dative ānserī ānseribus
Accusative ānserem ānserēs
Ablative ānsere ānseribus
Vocative ānser ānserēs

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Esperanto: ansero
  • Vulgar Latin: ānsar
  • Translingual: Anser

References edit

  • anser”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • anser”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • anser in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • anser”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • anser”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Verb edit

anser

  1. present of anse

Swedish edit

Verb edit

anser

  1. present indicative of anse

Anagrams edit