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Latin
Etymology
From an Oscan word meaning wolf. Compare Latin hirpus (“wolf”) and hirpex (“harrow”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hirpīnī m pl (genitive Hirpīnōrum); second declension
- A Samnite tribe who inhabited a region in southern Italy.
Declension
Second-declension noun, with locative, plural only.
Derived terms
References
- “Hirpini”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Hirpini”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Hirpini”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly