vipera

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• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: vi‧pe‧ra
• Rhymes: -rɒ

vipera (plural viperák)

1. viper (a poisonous snake in the family Viperidae)

• vipera in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

vipera (plural viperas)

1. viper

From Latin vīpera.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.pe.ra/
• Rhymes: -ipera
• Hyphenation: vì‧pe‧ra

vipera f (plural vipere)

1. viper, adder
2. (figurative) a catty person

• inviperire

• vipera in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• parevi, periva, pervia, previa, veprai

Possibly from vivus-pario, "one that gives live young". If this is true, doublet of vīvipara.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.pe.ra/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.pe.ra/,

vīpera f (genitive vīperae); first declension

1. adder, snake, serpent, viper
2. (figurative) someone who is malicious, vicious, treacherous
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Matthew.3.7:

     prōgeniēs vīperārum quis dēmōnstrāvit vōbīs fugere ā futūrā īrā

     “ progeny of vipers! Who showed you to flee from the coming wrath?”

First-declension noun.

• “vipera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vipera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vipera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.