cerastes

== English == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek κεράστης (kerástēs). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /səˈɹæstiːz/ === Noun === cerastes (plural cerastae) (mythology) A very flexible horned serpent in Greek legend, said to have no spine and to hide its head in the sand awaiting prey. === Anagrams === cateress, Cestares == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek κεράστης (kerástēs). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɛˈras.teːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃeˈras.tes] === Noun === cerastēs m (genitive cerastae); first declension horned viper (of genus Cerastes) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs). ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: cerasta Italian: ceraste → Translingual: Cerastes === References === “cerastes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cerastes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "cerastes", 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) “cerastes”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.