vipera

== Hungarian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈvipɛrɒ] Hyphenation: vi‧pe‧ra Rhymes: -rɒ === Noun === vipera (plural viperák) viper (a poisonous snake in the family Viperidae) ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === vipera in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN. == Interlingua == === Noun === vipera (plural viperas) viper == Italian == === Etymology === From Latin vīpera. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈvi.pe.ra/ Rhymes: -ipera Hyphenation: vì‧pe‧ra === Noun === vipera f (plural vipere) viper, adder (figurative) a catty person ==== Derived terms ==== inviperire === Further reading === vipera in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana === Anagrams === parevi, periva, pervia, previa, veprai == Latin == === Etymology === Contraction of *vivipera, an alteration of vivipara, the feminine of vīviparus (literally “livebearing”), referring to the young being born alive and whole (as opposed to being formed in a laid egg), from vīvus (“alive”) + pariō (“to give birth”) + -us (noun-forming suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwiː.pɛ.ra] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈviː.pe.ra] === Noun === vīpera f (genitive vīperae); first declension adder, snake, serpent, viper (figurative) someone who is malicious, vicious, treacherous ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “vipera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vipera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “vipera”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.