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Webster 1913 Edition

Dipsas

Dip′sas

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Noun.

[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] thirst.]

1.

A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst.

Milton.

2.

(Zool.)

A genus of harmless colubrine snakes.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dipsas

DIPSAS

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Noun.

[gr., dry, thirsty; to thirst.] A serpent whose bite produces a mortal thirst. See Deuteronomy 8.

Definition 2024

dipsas

dipsas

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Latin

Noun

dipsas f ‎(genitive dipsadis); third declension

viper (Cerastes vipera)

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	dipsas	dipsadēs
genitive	dipsadis	dipsadum
dative	dipsadī	dipsadibus
accusative	dipsadem	dipsadēs
ablative	dipsade	dipsadibus
vocative	dipsas	dipsadēs

References

dipsas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “dipsas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.