saetiger

• sētiger

From saeta (“bristle”) +‎ -ger (“bearing”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsae̯.tɪ.ɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛː.t̪i.d͡ʒer]

saetiger (feminine saetigera, neuter saetigerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. bristly, bristle-bearing, having coarse hair or bristles, setaceous
2. (nominalized, poetic) a hog (a pig or boar)
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 12.169–171:

     […] , puraque in veste sacerdos saetigeri fetum suis intonsamque bidentem attulit admovitque pecus flagrantibus aris.

     […] , in immaculate clothes the priest to the burning altars led the four-legged offerings, the young of a boar and an unshorn lamb.

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

• “saetiger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “saetiger”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• saetiger in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.