carnivorus

Latin

Etymology

carō (“meat, flesh”, stem: carn-) +‎ -vorus (“-eating, -devouring”, suffix forming adjectives)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /karˈni.u̯o.rus/, [kärˈniu̯ɔrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /karˈni.vo.rus/, [kärˈniːvorus]

Adjective

carnivorus (feminine carnivora, neuter carnivorum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (of animals) feeding on flesh, carnivorous, meat-eating

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	carnivorus	carnivora	carnivorum		carnivorī	carnivorae	carnivora
Genitive	carnivorī	carnivorae	carnivorī		carnivorōrum	carnivorārum	carnivorōrum
Dative	carnivorō		carnivorō		carnivorīs
Accusative	carnivorum	carnivoram	carnivorum		carnivorōs	carnivorās	carnivora
Ablative	carnivorō	carnivorā	carnivorō		carnivorīs
Vocative	carnivore	carnivora	carnivorum		carnivorī	carnivorae	carnivora

Related terms

• carnis

Descendants

• English: carnivorous
• French: carnivore
  • English: carnivore
• Galician: carnívoro
• Italian: carnivoro
• Old Occitan: carnivor
  • Catalan: carnívor
  • Occitan: carnivòr
• Piedmontese: carnìvor
• Portuguese: carnívoro
• Spanish: carnívoro

References

• “carnĭvŏrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• carnivorus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.