anguis

See also: Anguis

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis (“snake”). Cognates include Old Prussian angis, Old Armenian աւձ (awj), Old High German unc, unko (“snake”), and Old East Slavic ѫжь (ǫžĭ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈan.ɡʷis/, [ˈäŋɡʷɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈan.ɡwis/, [ˈäŋɡwis]

Noun

anguis m or f (genitive anguis); third declension

1. snake, serpent, dragon
2. (astronomy) the constellation Hydra

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī)

	singular	plural
nominative	anguis	anguēs
genitive	anguis	anguium
dative	anguī	anguibus
accusative	anguem	anguēs anguīs
ablative	angue anguī	anguibus
vocative	anguis	anguēs

Synonyms

• (snake, serpent): serpēns, coluber, dracō, vīpera
• (dragon): dracō

Derived terms

• anguen
• angueus
• anguicomus
• anguiculus
• anguifer
• anguigena
• anguiger
• anguimanus
• anguineus
• anguīnus
• anguipēs
• anguitenēns

 

Related terms

• anguīnus
• anguīlla

References

• “anguis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “anguis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• anguis 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)
• anguis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “anguis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “anguis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Middle English

Noun

anguis

1. Alternative form of angwissh