noun · masculinethird declension
veprēs
veprēs m or f (genitive vepris)
Classical[ˈwɛ.preːs]Ecclesiastical[ˈvɛː.pres]
Meaning
- plural normallythornbush, briar bush, bramble
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
dūmī spīnōsīveprēs -ium (m) — in IVLIANVS I: Gallia, ch. 9
dūmus, frutex spīnōsusveprēs -is (m) — in IVLIANVS II: Imperium, ch. 10
Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Dumi · Sentes · Vepres
Dumi denotes bushes growing thickly together, which present the appearance of a wilderness; sentes, prickly and wounding bushes, thorn-bushes; vepres combines both meanings; thorn-bushes which make the ground a wilderness. (vi. 108.)
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | veprēs | veprēs |
| genitive | vepris | veprium veprum |
| dative | veprī | vepribus |
| accusative | veprem | veprēs veprīs |
| ablative | vepre | vepribus |
| vocative | veprēs | veprēs |
vē^pres (vē^pris, vĕper), is, and more usu. in the plur.: vĕpres, ium (poet. veprum, Stat. S. 5, 2, 44), m. (
I. fem., Lucr. 4, 62; v. Neue, Formenl. 1, pp. 460, 678), a thorn-bush, brier-bush, bramble-bush (class.).
(a). Plur.: ARBORES, VITES, VEPRES, SENTES, S. C. ap. Front. Aquaed. 129:
sepulcrum septum undique et vestitum vepribus et dumetis, Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 64; cf. Cato, R. R. 2, 4; Lucr. 4, 62; Verg. G. 1, 271; 3, 444; id. A. 8, 645; * Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 9.—Gen. veprum, Stat. S. 5, 2, 44; Suet. Tib. 60; Col. 11, 3, 3.—Prov.: inter vepres rosae nascuntur, Amm. 16, 7, 4.—(b). Sing. nom. vepres, Prisc. p. 613 P.—Acc. hunc veprem, Col. 11, 3, 7; Plin. 13, 21, 37, § 116:
veprem et spinam vorabit, Vulg. Isa. 9, 18; 27, 4.—Abl. vepre, Ov. M. 5, 628.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
veprēs is, m
a thorn-bush, brier-bush, bramblebush: lepus vepre latens, O.: saeptum vepribus et dumetis sepulcrum: sparsi sanguine, V.: quid si Corna vepres ferant, H.
Origins
Uncertain; proposed derivations include: * From a Proto-Indo-European root *werp- (“to bend”) common to Ancient Greek ῥέπω (rhépō, “to incline”). * From a root common to Russian чуб (čub, “tuft, lock of hair”).