cerastes
See also: Cerastes
English edit
Etymology edit
Ancient Greek κεράστης (kerástēs)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cerastes (plural cerastae)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κεράστης (kerástēs).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /keˈras.teːs/, [kɛˈräs̠t̪eːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃeˈras.tes/, [t͡ʃeˈräst̪es]
Noun edit
cerastēs m (genitive cerastae); first declension
- horned viper (of genus Cerastes)
Declension edit
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cerastēs | cerastae |
Genitive | cerastae | cerastārum |
Dative | cerastae | cerastīs |
Accusative | cerastēn | cerastās |
Ablative | cerastē | cerastīs |
Vocative | cerastē | cerastae |
Descendants edit
- Italian: ceraste
References edit
- “cerastes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cerastes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cerastes 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)
- cerastes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.