coniger

Latin

Etymology

cōnus (“cone”) +‎ -ger (“bearing”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.ni.ɡer/, [ˈkoːnɪɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ni.d͡ʒer/, [ˈkɔːnid͡ʒer]

Adjective

cōniger (feminine cōnigera, neuter cōnigerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. (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).

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cōniger	cōnigera	cōnigerum		cōnigerī	cōnigerae	cōnigera
Genitive	cōnigerī	cōnigerae	cōnigerī		cōnigerōrum	cōnigerārum	cōnigerōrum
Dative	cōnigerō		cōnigerō		cōnigerīs
Accusative	cōnigerum	cōnigeram	cōnigerum		cōnigerōs	cōnigerās	cōnigera
Ablative	cōnigerō	cōnigerā	cōnigerō		cōnigerīs
Vocative	cōniger	cōnigera	cōnigerum		cōnigerī	cōnigerae	cōnigera

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.