anguis

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *anɣʷis, 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): [ˈaŋ.ɡʷɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaŋ.ɡʷis] === Noun === anguis m or f (genitive anguis); third declension snake, serpent, dragon (Greek mythology) Hydra (astronomy) the constellation Hydra ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī). ==== Synonyms ==== (snake, serpent): serpēns, coluber, dracō, vīpera (dragon): dracō ==== Derived terms ==== ==== 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, 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 De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 42 == Middle English == === Noun === anguis alternative form of angwissh