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Latin
Etymology
From spīna (“thorn, spine, prickle”) + -fer (“carrying”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
spīnifer (feminine spīnifera or spīnifra, neuter spīniferum or spīnifrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er; two different stems)
- thorny, prickly, spiny
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er; two different stems).
References
- “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.