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Translingual
Proper noun
Sospita
- Synonym of Abisara (“butterfly genus”)
English
Etymology
From Latin Sospita (“One who Saves, Salvatrix, Savior”).
Proper noun
Sospita
- An epithet of the Roman goddess Juno.
Latin
Etymology
From sospes, sospit- (“saving”) + -a (suffix forming feminine nouns). Compare hospita from hospes.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sospita f sg (genitive Sospitae); first declension
- Sospita, an epithet of the Roman goddess Juno.
- Synonym of salvātrīx, other female saviors.
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
References
- “Sospita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Sospita in D. P. Simpson, Cassell's Latin Dictionary, Wiley Publishing, 1968