saepes

• sēpēs

From Proto-Indo-European *seh₂ip- (“to cram, fence”), possibly from *sh₂ey-. Cognate with saepis, saepiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsae̯.peːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛː.pes]

saepēs f (genitive saepis); third declension

1. hedge, fence
   • 70 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Eclogues I.53–54:

     hinc tibi, quae semper, vicino ab limite saepes
     Hyblaeis apibus florem depasta salicti

     • Translation by James Bradstreet Greenough

       Here, as of old, your neighbour's bordering hedge, that feasts with willow-flower the Hybla bees, […]

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• “saepes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “saepes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “saepes”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 878
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “saepes”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 563