"viverra" meaning in All languages combined

See viverra on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: viverras [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} viverra (plural viverras)
  1. (zoology, obsolete) An animal of the genus Viverra; a civet. Tags: obsolete

Noun [Latin]

IPA: /u̯iːˈu̯er.ra/ [Classical-Latin], [u̯iːˈu̯ɛrːä] [Classical-Latin], /viˈver.ra/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [viˈvɛrːä] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wer-; compare Proto-Celtic *wiweros. Etymology templates: {{root|la|ine-pro|*wer-|id=squirrel}}, {{der|la|ine-pro|*wer-|id=squirrel}} Proto-Indo-European *wer-, {{cog|cel-pro|*wiweros}} Proto-Celtic *wiweros Head templates: {{la-noun|vīverra<1>}} vīverra f (genitive vīverrae); first declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|vīverra<1>}} Forms: vīverra [canonical, feminine], vīverrae [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], vīverra [nominative, singular], vīverrae [nominative, plural], vīverrae [genitive, singular], vīverrārum [genitive, plural], vīverrae [dative, singular], vīverrīs [dative, plural], vīverram [accusative, singular], vīverrās [accusative, plural], vīverrā [ablative, singular], vīverrīs [ablative, plural], vīverra [singular, vocative], vīverrae [plural, vocative]
  1. a ferret Tags: declension-1 Derived forms: vīverrīnus

Inflected forms

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              123,
              130
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          "text": "Viverra tigrina, or yellowish-grey weasel. […] Mr. Pennant has referred it to the genus felis, but Mr. Schrader makes it a viverra.",
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              256,
              264
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          "ref": "1862, The Medical Times and Gazette, volume 2, page 269:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "(zoology, obsolete) An animal of the genus Viverra; a civet."
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              264
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