Latin

edit

Etymology

edit

Probably from a Proto-Indo-European root common to Danish kvas (twig) and Ancient Greek βόστρυχος (bóstrukhos, anything twisted or wreathed).[1]

Noun

edit

vespex f (genitive vespicis); third declension

  1. A thicket, a shrubbery

Declension

edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vespex vespicēs
Genitive vespicis vespicum
Dative vespicī vespicibus
Accusative vespicem vespicēs
Ablative vespice vespicibus
Vocative vespex vespicēs

References

edit
  • vespices”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vespices in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “vespex”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 771