viverra

See also: Viverra

English

Noun

viverra (plural viverras)

1. (zoology, obsolete) An animal of the genus Viverra; a civet.
   • 1829, John Wilkes, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, volume 24, page 410:

     Viverra tigrina, or yellowish-grey weasel. […] Mr. Pennant has referred it to the genus felis, but Mr. Schrader makes it a viverra.

   • 1862, The Medical Times and Gazette, volume 2, page 269:

     That curious animal, the basset (Bassaris astuta), which has alternately been associated by zoologists with the Ursidæ and Viverridæ, has blood corpuscles more agreeing in size with those of the bears, and consequently distinctly smaller than those of the viverras.

Latin

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wer-; compare Proto-Celtic *wiweros.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯iˈu̯er.ra/, [u̯iˈu̯ɛrːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈver.ra/, [viˈvɛrːä]

Noun

viverra f (genitive viverrae); first declension

1. a ferret

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	viverra	viverrae
genitive	viverrae	viverrārum
dative	viverrae	viverrīs
accusative	viverram	viverrās
ablative	viverrā	viverrīs
vocative	viverra	viverrae

Derived terms

• viverrinus

Descendants

• Dalmatian: viala
• → Russian: виверра (viverra)
• → Translingual: Viverra

References

• “viverra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• viverra 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)
• viverra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.