vespex

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

vespex f (genitive vespicis); third declension

  1. A thicket, a shrubbery

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case 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), volume 2, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 771
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