cerastes

See also: Cerastes

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κεράστης (kerástēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈɹæstiːz/

Noun

cerastes (plural cerastae)

1. (mythology) A very flexible horned serpent in Greek legend, said to have no spine and to hide its head in the sand awaiting prey.

Anagrams

• cateress, Cestares

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κεράστης (kerástēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /keˈras.teːs/, [kɛˈräs̠t̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈras.tes/, [t͡ʃeˈräst̪es]

Noun

cerastēs m (genitive cerastae); first declension

1. horned viper (of genus Cerastes)

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).

	singular	plural
nominative	cerastēs	cerastae
genitive	cerastae	cerastārum
dative	cerastae	cerastīs
accusative	cerastēn	cerastās
ablative	cerastē	cerastīs
vocative	cerastē	cerastae

Descendants

• Italian: ceraste

References

• “cerastes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cerastes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cerastes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cerastes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.