anguimanus

== Latin == === Etymology === Compound of anguis (“serpent, snake”) +‎ manus (“hand”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aŋˈɡʷɪ.ma.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aŋˈɡʷiː.ma.nus] === Adjective === anguimanus serpent-handed (used by Lucretius as a poetic epithet of the elephant) ==== Usage notes ==== In Classical Latin, this adjective is attested only by two examples of the fourth-declension accusative plural (once as masculine, once as feminine), found in the quotations from Lucretius cited above. In some New Latin dictionaries and authors, the word is instead found as a first/second-declension adjective. ==== Declension ==== Fourth declension adjective. First/second-declension adjective. === References === “anguĭmănus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “anguĭmănŭs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. anguimanus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung