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Latin
Etymology
ovis (“a sheep”) + -īlis
Pronunciation
Adjective
ovīlis (neuter ovīle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- of or for sheep, sheep-
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Noun
ovīlis
- genitive singular of ovīle
References
- “ovilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ovilis 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)
- ovilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.