cerastes

Ancient Greek κεράστης (kerástēs)

• IPA^(key): /səˈɹæstiːz/

cerastes (plural cerastae)

1. (mythology) A very flexible horned serpent in Greek legend, said to have no spine and to hide its head in the sand awaiting prey.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κεράστης (kerástēs).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /keˈras.teːs/, [kɛˈräs̠t̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈras.tes/, [t͡ʃeˈräst̪es]

cerastēs m (genitive cerastae); first declension

1. horned viper (of genus Cerastes)

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).

• Italian: ceraste

• “cerastes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cerastes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cerastes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cerastes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.