versipelle
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Classical Latin versipellis (“shape-shifting; sly, cunning”, adjective, literally “skin-turning”; “werewolf”, noun)
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]versipelle (invariable) (obsolete, literary)
- shape-shifting
- (figurative) cunningly or slyly deceiving
- (of a statement) false, deceiving
- turncoating
Noun
[edit]versipelle m (invariable) (obsolete, literary)
- a sly dissembler or pretender; a cunning, immoral man
- one who turns his coat
- werewolf, lycanthrope
References
[edit]- versipelle in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]versipelle
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