versipellis

== Latin == === Alternative forms === vorsipellis === Etymology === From vertō (“turn”) + pellis (“skin, hide”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɛr.sɪˈpɛl.lɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ver.siˈpɛl.lis] === Adjective === versipellis (neuter versipelle); third-declension two-termination adjective shape-shifting, capable of transforming itself or altering its appearance (figuratively) sly, cunning, crafty ==== Declension ==== Third-declension two-termination adjective. ==== Descendants ==== → Italian: versipelle (learned) === Noun === versipellis m (genitive versipellis); third declension (fantasy, mythology) a werewolf, lycanthrope ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem). ==== Descendants ==== → Italian: versipelle (learned) === References === “versipellis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “versipellis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “versipellis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers