Wyvern folklore is rarely fire-breathing like the four-legged dragon. Sometimes modern fantasy book and media authors have wyverns that are frost-breathing or poison-breathing instead of fire-breathing. The current spelling "wyvern" is not attested before the seventeenth century as "winged two-footed dragon". According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is an alteration of Middle English "wyver" (attested thirteenth century), from Anglo-French "wivre" (cf. French "guivre" and "vouivre"), which originate from Latin "vīpera", meaning "viper", "adder", or "asp". Conversely, medievalist William Sayers proposes a more complex origin for the term. He notes that the Anglo-French "guivre" and its Middle English derivative ceased to
Wyvern the Japanese basketball team, the Passlab Yamagata Wyverns of the Japanese B.League The wyvern is also the mascot of the 51st Operations Support Squadron at Osan Air Base, with the motto: "breathin' fire!" A wyvern is depicted on the unit crest of the USAF 31st Fighter Wing. The wyvern is the mascot on the shirt of Leyton Orient F.C.. The wyvern is featured as the team mascot for Woodbridge College in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada. The Wyvern is the Mascot of Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, Massachusetts. Wyvern A wyvern ( , sometimes spelled wivern) is a legendary creature with a