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Latin
Etymology
From nemus (“grove; wood”) + vagus (“wandering”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
nemorivagus (feminine nemorivaga, neuter nemorivagum); first/second-declension adjective
- (hapax) wandering in the woods
c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE,
Catullus,
Carmina 63.71–73:
- Ego vīta agam sub altīs Phrygiae columinibus
ubi cerva silvicultrīx, ubi aper nemorivagus?
Iam, iam dolet quod ēgī, iam, iamque paenitet.- I shall spend my life under the high summits of Phrygia
where the forest-dwelling stag and the woodland-wandering wild boar are?
Now, now hurts what I've done, now and now I regret.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Related terms
References
- “nemorivagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nemorivagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nemorivagus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.