veliger

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin vēliger (“sail-bearing”). === Noun === veliger (plural veligers) (zoology) The planktonic larva of many kinds of marine and freshwater gastropod molluscs, as well as most bivalve molluscs. ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === From vēlum (“sail”) + -ger (“bearing”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈweː.lɪ.ɡɛr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvɛː.li.d͡ʒer] === Adjective === vēliger (feminine vēligera, neuter vēligerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er) sail-bearing, covered with sails ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er). === References === “veliger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “veliger”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.