contiger

== Latin == === Etymology === From contus (“long pole, pike”) + -ger (“bearing”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɔn.tɪ.ɡɛr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkɔn.ti.d͡ʒer] === Adjective === contiger (feminine contigera, neuter contigerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er) spear-bearing ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er). === Noun === contiger m (genitive contigerī); second declension a spear-bearer, a lancer ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er). === References === “contiger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “contiger”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.