hirpus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === irpus === Etymology === From Sabine, which according to De Vaan could be related to hircus (“he-goat”), though this is semantically tenuous and both words could easily be of local substrate origin. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈhɪr.pʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈir.pus] === Noun === hirpus m (genitive hirpī); second declension wolf ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== hirpex Hirpīnī hirpinus ==== Synonyms ==== lupus === References === === Further reading === “hirpus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "hirpus", 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) “hirpus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.