vespex

Latin

Etymology

Probably from a Proto-Indo-European root common to Danish kvas (“twig”) and Ancient Greek βόστρυχος (bóstrukhos, “anything twisted or wreathed”).[1]

Noun

vespex f (genitive vespicis); third declension

  1. A thicket, a shrubbery

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative vespex vespicēs
genitive vespicis vespicum
dative vespicī vespicibus
accusative vespicem vespicēs
ablative vespice vespicibus
vocative vespex vespicēs

References

  • “vespices”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vespices in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “vespex”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 771
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