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Latin
Etymology
cōnus (“cone”) + -ger (“bearing”)
Pronunciation
Adjective
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
Usage notes
Attested once in the Classical period (see quotations above).
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
References
- “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.