Noun: anguis
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Declension: Third
Nominative
| Singular | anguis |
| Plural | anguēs |
Genitive
| Singular | anguis |
| Plural | anguium |
Dative
| Singular | anguī |
| Plural | anguibus |
Accusative
| Singular | anguem |
| Plural | anguēs; anguīs |
Ablative
| Singular | angue; anguī |
| Plural | anguibus |
Vocative
| Singular | anguis |
| Plural | anguēs |
Sample Sentences
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Cum Pyrrhus “video me” inquit “plane procreatum Herculis semine, cui quasi ab angue Lernaeo tot caesa hostium capita quasi de sanguine suo renascuntur. (When Pyrrhus said: "I see that I am clearly begotten of the seed of Hercules, for whom so many slain heads of enemies, as though from the Lernaean Hydra, are being reborn as though from their own blood.") [Florus, Epitome of Roman History 1.13.19-20]
Nouns inflected like anguis
subclassis,
birēmis,
novālis,
superclassis,
quadrirēmis,
quīnquerēmis,
classis,
vōcālis,
amnis,
auris,
fīnis,
orbis,
cīvis,
rudis,
nātālis,
sēmivōcālis,
trirēmis,
maiālis,
majālis,
mataris, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *anɣʷis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis (“snake”). Cognates include Old Prussian angis, Old Armenian աւձ (awj), Old High German unc, unko (“snake”), and Old East Slavic ѫжь (ǫžĭ). Displaced Proto-Indo-European *h₁ógʷʰis.
Verbs referencing "anguis"
Russian Nouns
уж, German Nouns
Unke, Latvian Nouns
odze.
Translations