coniger
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
cōnus (“cone”) + -ger (“bearing”)
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkoː.ni.ɡer/, [ˈkoːnɪɡɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.ni.d͡ʒer/, [ˈkɔːnid͡ʒer]
Adjective[edit]
cōniger (feminine cōnigera, neuter cōnigerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- (hapax) having conical fruit, coniferous
- Synonym: cōnifer
- c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 64:
- nam velut in summo quatientem bracchia Tauro
quercum aut conigeram sudanti cortice pinum
indomitus turbo contorquens flamine robur
eruit […]- Translation by Leonard C. Smithers
- For as an oak waving its boughs on Taurus' top, or a coniferous pine with sweating stem, is uprooted by savage storm, twisting its trunk with its blast […]
- Translation by Leonard C. Smithers
- nam velut in summo quatientem bracchia Tauro
Usage notes[edit]
Attested once in the Classical period (see quotations above).
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | cōniger | cōnigera | cōnigerum | cōnigerī | cōnigerae | cōnigera | |
Genitive | cōnigerī | cōnigerae | cōnigerī | cōnigerōrum | cōnigerārum | cōnigerōrum | |
Dative | cōnigerō | cōnigerō | cōnigerīs | ||||
Accusative | cōnigerum | cōnigeram | cōnigerum | cōnigerōs | cōnigerās | cōnigera | |
Ablative | cōnigerō | cōnigerā | cōnigerō | cōnigerīs | |||
Vocative | cōniger | cōnigera | cōnigerum | cōnigerī | cōnigerae | cōnigera |
References[edit]
- “coniger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “coniger”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- coniger in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.