vipera

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

vipera (plural viperák)

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

• vipera in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (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

Contraction of *vivipera, an alteration of vivipara, the feminine of vīviparus (literally “livebearing”), referring to the young being born alive and whole (as opposed to being formed in a laid egg), from vīvus (“alive”) + pariō (“to give birth”) + -us (noun-forming suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwiː.pɛ.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈviː.pe.ra]

vīpera f (genitive vīperae); first declension

1. adder, snake, serpent, viper
2. (figurative) someone who is malicious, vicious, treacherous
   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Matthew.3.7:

     prōgeniēs vīperārum quis dēmōnstrāvit vōbīs fugere ā futūrā īrā

     “[You] progeny of vipers! Who showed you [how/where] 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.