frugilegus

== Latin == === Etymology === From frūx (oblique stem in frūg-) +‎ legō +‎ -us (forming compound adjectives). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fruːˈɡɪ.ɫɛ.ɡʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [fruˈd͡ʒiː.le.ɡus] Hyphenation: frū‧gi‧le‧gus === Adjective === frūgilegus (feminine frūgilega, neuter frūgilegum); first/second-declension adjective(poetic, hapax legomenon) fruit-gathering (used as an epithet of the ant) ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “frugilegus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “frugilegus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “frugilegus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers