spinifer
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From spīna (“thorn, spine, prickle”) + -fer (“carrying”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈspiː.ni.fer/, [ˈs̠piːnɪfɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspi.ni.fer/, [ˈspiːnifer]
Adjective[edit]
spīnifer (feminine spīnifera or spīnifra, neuter spīniferum or spīnifrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er; two different stems)
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er; two different stems).
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “spinifer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- spinifer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.