hirquine

English

Etymology

From Latin hirquīnus, a variant of hircīnus.[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

hirquine (comparative more hirquine, superlative most hirquine)

  1. (rare) Alternative spelling of hircine.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “hircine, a. and n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989] (the pronunciatory transcription being adapted from that prescribed for hircine)
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.