mellifer
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See also: mel·lífer
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From mel (“honey”) + -fer (“-carrying”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmel.li.fer/, [ˈmɛlːʲɪfɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmel.li.fer/, [ˈmɛlːifer]
Adjective[edit]
mellifer (feminine mellifera, neuter melliferum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- honey-bearing, honey-producing, melliferous
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | mellifer | mellifera | melliferum | melliferī | melliferae | mellifera | |
Genitive | melliferī | melliferae | melliferī | melliferōrum | melliferārum | melliferōrum | |
Dative | melliferō | melliferō | melliferīs | ||||
Accusative | melliferum | melliferam | melliferum | melliferōs | melliferās | mellifera | |
Ablative | melliferō | melliferā | melliferō | melliferīs | |||
Vocative | mellifer | mellifera | melliferum | melliferī | melliferae | mellifera |
Synonyms[edit]
- (honey-bearing): melliger
Related terms[edit]
Related terms
Descendants[edit]
- Catalan: mel·lífer
- ⇒ English: melliferous
References[edit]
- “mellifer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mellifer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mellifer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.