barbiger
Latin
Etymology
barba (“beard”) + -ger (“bearing”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbar.bɪ.ɡɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbar.bi.d͡ʒer]
Adjective
barbiger (feminine barbigera, neuter barbigerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
Quippe videre licet pinguescere saepe cicuta barbigeras pecudes, homini quae est acre venenum. (De Rerum Natura 5.899-900)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
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Related terms
- barbigena
References
- “barbĭger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "barbiger", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- barbĭgĕr in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 208/1.
- “barbiger” on page 225/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)