omnicarpus

== Latin == === Etymology === From omnis (“every, each, all”) +‎ caper (“goat”) +‎ -us (adjective forming suffix), with metathesis of the second word in the compound. Compare Varro, in De Lingua Latina, mentioning a Sabine form of the word capra: carpa. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔm.nɪˈkar.pʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [om.niˈkar.pus] === Adjective === omnicarpus (feminine omnicarpa, neuter omnicarpum); first/second-declension adjective (of a grazing animal) That crops everything Hypernym: herbivorus ==== Usage notes ==== Used especially to describe goats ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== See also ==== omnivorus === References === “omnicarpus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “omnicarpus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.