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English
Noun
ophites
- plural of ophite
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
ophītēs m (genitive ophītae); first declension
- serpentine (type of marble)
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).
References
- “ophites”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ophites in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.