laniger

== Latin == === Etymology === From lāna (“wool”) + -ger (“bearing”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɫaː.nɪ.ɡɛr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈlaː.ni.d͡ʒer] === Adjective === lāniger (feminine lānigera, neuter lānigerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er) (poetic) wool-bearing, fleecy of a lamb ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er). ==== Derived terms ==== lānigera === Noun === lāniger m (genitive lānigerī); second declension ram (astronomy, poetic) the constellation of the Ram (Aries) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er). === References === “laniger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “laniger”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “laniger”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.