nemorivagus

Latin

Etymology

From nemus (“grove; wood”) +‎ vagus (“wandering”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ne.moˈri.u̯a.ɡus/, [nɛmɔˈriu̯äɡʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ne.moˈri.va.ɡus/, [nemoˈriːväɡus]

Adjective

nemorivagus (feminine nemorivaga, neuter nemorivagum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (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.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	nemorivagus	nemorivaga	nemorivagum		nemorivagī	nemorivagae	nemorivaga
genitive	nemorivagī	nemorivagae	nemorivagī		nemorivagōrum	nemorivagārum	nemorivagōrum
dative	nemorivagō	nemorivagae	nemorivagō		nemorivagīs
accusative	nemorivagum	nemorivagam	nemorivagum		nemorivagōs	nemorivagās	nemorivaga
ablative	nemorivagō	nemorivagā	nemorivagō		nemorivagīs
vocative	nemorivage	nemorivaga	nemorivagum		nemorivagī	nemorivagae	nemorivaga

Related terms

• nemoralis

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.