Hirpini

== Latin == === Etymology === From an Oscan word meaning wolf. Compare Latin hirpus (“wolf”) and hirpex (“harrow”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [hɪrˈpiː.niː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [irˈpiː.ni] === Proper noun === Hirpīnī m pl (genitive Hirpīnōrum); second declension A Samnite tribe who inhabited a region in southern Italy. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, with locative, plural only. ==== Derived terms ==== Hirpīnia === References === “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