veliger
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English
Etymology
From Latin vēliger (“sail-bearing”).
Noun
veliger (plural veligers)
- (zoology) The planktonic larva of many kinds of marine and freshwater gastropod molluscs, as well as most bivalve molluscs.
Latin
Etymology
vēlum (“sail”) + -ger (“bearing”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯eː.li.ɡer/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈve.li.d͡ʒer/,
Adjective
vēliger (feminine vēligera, neuter vēligerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | vēliger | vēligera | vēligerum | vēligerī | vēligerae | vēligera | |
| genitive | vēligerī | vēligerae | vēligerī | vēligerōrum | vēligerārum | vēligerōrum | |
| dative | vēligerō | vēligerae | vēligerō | vēligerīs | |||
| accusative | vēligerum | vēligeram | vēligerum | vēligerōs | vēligerās | vēligera | |
| ablative | vēligerō | vēligerā | vēligerō | vēligerīs | |||
| vocative | vēliger | vēligera | vēligerum | vēligerī | vēligerae | vēligera | |
References
- “veliger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- veliger in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.