vipereus

== Latin == === Etymology === From vīpera + -eus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wiːˈpɛ.re.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [viˈpɛː.re.us] === Adjective === vīpereus (feminine vīperea, neuter vīpereum, adverb vīpereē); first/second-declension adjective of or pertaining to a viper or snake; snaky Seneca the Younger, Hercules Furens, line 88: Viperea saevae verbera incutiant manus. Let their [the Eumenides'] savage hands brandish snaky lashes. ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === References === “vipereus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vipereus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “vipereus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.