nemorivagus

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [nɛ.mɔˈrɪ.wa.ɡʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ne.moˈriː.va.ɡus]

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

1. (hapax legomenon) 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.

First/second-declension adjective.

• nemoralis

• “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.