Sospita

Sospita

1. Synonym of Abisara (“butterfly genus”)

From Latin Sospita (“One who Saves, Salvatrix, Savior”).

Sospita

1. An epithet of the Roman goddess Juno.

From sospes, sospit- (“saving”) +‎ -a (suffix forming feminine nouns). Compare hospita from hospes.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsos.pi.ta/, [ˈs̠ɔs̠pɪt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsos.pi.ta/, [ˈsɔspit̪ä]

Sospita f sg (genitive Sospitae); first declension

1. Sospita, an epithet of the Roman goddess Juno.
2. Synonym of salvātrīx, other female saviors.

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Sospita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Sospita in D. P. Simpson, Cassell's Latin Dictionary, Wiley Publishing, 1968