velifer

== English == === Etymology === From Latin vēl(um) (“sail, curtain”) + -i- +‎ -fer. === Noun === velifer (plural velifers) Any of two species of fish that make up the family Veliferidae: a spinyfin velifer (Metavelifer multiradiatus) and a sailfin velifer (Vellifer hypselopterus) === References === Veliferidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Veliferidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Veliferidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons == Latin == === Etymology === From vēlum (“sail”) + -fer (“carrying”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈweː.lɪ.fɛr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvɛː.li.fer] === Adjective === vēlifer (feminine vēlifera, neuter vēliferum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er) (nautical) sail-bearing ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er). ==== Derived terms ==== veliferous === References === “velifer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “velifer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “velifer”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.