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Latin
Etymology
From caper (“he-goat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
caprea f (genitive capreae); first declension
- a roe deer
- a wild female goat
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “caprea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caprea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caprea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- caprea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.