ensifer

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēnsifer (“sword-bearing”).

Noun

ensifer (uncountable)

1. (sciences) In microbiology, a genus of the bacteria family of Rhizobiaceae.

Anagrams

• refines

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Latin

Etymology

From ēnsis (“sword”) + ferō (“bear”).

Orion depicted as an ensifer (sword-bearer), Uranometria, 1603

Adjective

ēnsifer m. (feminine ēnsifera, neuter ēnsiferum); first/second declension

1. sword-bearing
2. (substantive) sword-bearer
3. (substantive) one name of the constellation Orion (like the Ancient Greek ξιφήρης)
   • 1835. M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Carolus Hermannus Weise) book 1, line 663 (3.61):

     Ensiferi nimium fulget latus Orionis ?

Inflection

Number	Singular				Plural
Case \ Gender	M.	F.	N.		MM.	FF.	NN.
nominative	ēnsifer	ēnsifera	ēnsiferum		ēnsiferī	ēnsiferae	ēnsifera
genitive	ēnsiferī	ēnsiferae	ēnsiferī		ēnsiferōrum	ēnsiferārum	ēnsiferōrum
dative	ēnsiferō	ēnsiferae	ēnsiferō		ēnsiferīs	ēnsiferīs	ēnsiferīs
accusative	ēnsiferum	ēnsiferam	ēnsiferum		ēnsiferōs	ēnsiferās	ēnsifera
ablative	ēnsiferō	ēnsiferā	ēnsiferō		ēnsiferīs	ēnsiferīs	ēnsiferīs
vocative	ēnsifer	ēnsifera	ēnsiferum		ēnsiferī	ēnsiferae	ēnsifera

References

• ensifer in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
• Glossary of Latin Words, Bible History Online. (File retrieved 10-19-07)[1]
• M. Annaeus Lucanus (1835) Pharsalia (poem).[2]