anguis

From Proto-Italic *anɣʷis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis (“snake”). Cognates include Old Prussian angis, Old Armenian աւձ (awj), Old High German unc, unko (“snake”), and Old East Slavic ѫжь (ǫžĭ).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaŋ.ɡʷɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaŋ.ɡʷis]

anguis m or f (genitive anguis); third declension

1. snake, serpent, dragon
2. (Greek mythology) Hydra
   • Florus, Epitome of Roman History 1.13.19-20:

     Cum Pyrrhus “video me” inquit “plane procreatum Herculis semine, cui quasi ab angue Lernaeo tot caesa hostium capita quasi de sanguine suo renascuntur.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (astronomy) the constellation Hydra

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).

• (snake, serpent): serpēns, coluber, dracō, vīpera
• (dragon): dracō

• anguīnus
• anguīlla

• “anguis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “anguis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "anguis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “anguis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “anguis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “anguis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 42

anguis

1. alternative form of angwissh