conifer
Appearance
See also: Conifer
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin cōnifer (“bearing cones”), by surface analysis, Latin cōnus (“cone”) + -fer.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkɒnɪfə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]conifer (plural conifers)
- (botany) A plant belonging to the order Coniferales; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree.
Hyponyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:conifer
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]plant
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Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]cōnus (“cone”) + -fer (“-bearing”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkoː.ni.fer/, [ˈkoːnɪfɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.ni.fer/, [ˈkɔːnifer]
Adjective
[edit]cōnifer (feminine cōnifera, neuter cōniferum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- (hapax) bearing conical fruit
- Synonym: cōniger
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 3.677–681:
- cernimus astantis nequiquam lumine torvo
Aetnaeos fratres caelo capita alta ferentis,
concilium horrendum: quales cum vertice celso
aeriae quercus aut coniferae cyparissi
constiterunt, silva alta Iovis lucusve Dianae.- Translation by David West
- We saw the brotherhood of Etna standing there helpless, each with his one eye glaring and head held high in the sky, a fearsome gathering, standing like high-topped mountain oaks or cone-bearing cypresses in Jupiter's soaring forest or the grove of Diana.
- Translation by David West
- cernimus astantis nequiquam lumine torvo
Usage notes
[edit]Attested once in the Classical period (see quotations above).
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | cōnifer | cōnifera | cōniferum | cōniferī | cōniferae | cōnifera | |
genitive | cōniferī | cōniferae | cōniferī | cōniferōrum | cōniferārum | cōniferōrum | |
dative | cōniferō | cōniferae | cōniferō | cōniferīs | |||
accusative | cōniferum | cōniferam | cōniferum | cōniferōs | cōniferās | cōnifera | |
ablative | cōniferō | cōniferā | cōniferō | cōniferīs | |||
vocative | cōnifer | cōnifera | cōniferum | cōniferī | cōniferae | cōnifera |
References
[edit]- “conifer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “conifer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin conifer, French conifère.
Noun
[edit]conifer n (plural conifere)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | conifer | coniferul | conifere | coniferele | |
genitive-dative | conifer | coniferului | conifere | coniferelor | |
vocative | coniferule | coniferelor |
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