nemorivagus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From nemus (“grove; wood”) + vagus (“wandering”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ne.moˈri.u̯a.ɡus/, [nɛmɔˈriu̯äɡʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ne.moˈri.va.ɡus/, [nemoˈriːväɡus]
Adjective[edit]
nemorivagus (feminine nemorivaga, neuter nemorivagum); first/second-declension adjective
- (hapax) wandering in the woods
- c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 63.71–73:
- Ego vīta agam sub altīs Phrygiae columinibus
ubi cerva silvicultrīx, ubi aper nemorivagus?
Iam, iam dolet quod ēgī, iam, iamque paenitet.- I shall spend my life under the high summits of Phrygia
where the forest-dwelling stag and the woodland-wandering wild boar are?
Now, now hurts what I've done, now and now I regret.
- I shall spend my life under the high summits of Phrygia
- Ego vīta agam sub altīs Phrygiae columinibus
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | nemorivagus | nemorivaga | nemorivagum | nemorivagī | nemorivagae | nemorivaga | |
| Genitive | nemorivagī | nemorivagae | nemorivagī | nemorivagōrum | nemorivagārum | nemorivagōrum | |
| Dative | nemorivagō | nemorivagō | nemorivagīs | ||||
| Accusative | nemorivagum | nemorivagam | nemorivagum | nemorivagōs | nemorivagās | nemorivaga | |
| Ablative | nemorivagō | nemorivagā | nemorivagō | nemorivagīs | |||
| Vocative | nemorivage | nemorivaga | nemorivagum | nemorivagī | nemorivagae | nemorivaga | |
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “nemorivagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nemorivagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nemorivagus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.