aurifer
Latin
Etymology
Etymology tree
From aurum (“gold”) + -fer (“-carrying”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈau̯.rɪ.fɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaːu̯.ri.fer]
Adjective
aurifer (feminine aurifera, neuter auriferum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- bearing, producing or containing gold, gold-bearing, auriferous
- (of a tree, garden, or grove) bearing golden fruit
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | aurifer | aurifera | auriferum | auriferī | auriferae | aurifera | |
| genitive | auriferī | auriferae | auriferī | auriferōrum | auriferārum | auriferōrum | |
| dative | auriferō | auriferae | auriferō | auriferīs | |||
| accusative | auriferum | auriferam | auriferum | auriferōs | auriferās | aurifera | |
| ablative | auriferō | auriferā | auriferō | auriferīs | |||
| vocative | aurifer | aurifera | auriferum | auriferī | auriferae | aurifera | |
Synonyms
- (bearing gold): auriger
Related terms
- aurāria
- aurārius
- aurāta
- aurātilis
- aurātūra
- aurātus
- aureātus
- Aurēlia
- Aurēlius
- aureolus
- aurēscō
- aureus
- auricoctor
- auricolor
- auricomāns
- auricomus
- aurifex
- aurificina
- aurificīna
- aurificium
- aurifluus
- aurifodina
- aurifodīna
- aurifrigium
- aurigāns
- aurigena
- auriger
- aurilegulus
- auripigmentum
- auro
- aurō
- aurōsus
- aurūgineus
- aurūginō
- aurūginōsus
- aurūgō
- aurulentus
- aurum
Descendants
References
- “aurifer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aurifer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “aurifer”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French aurifère, from Latin aurifer.
Adjective
aurifer m or n (feminine singular auriferă, masculine plural auriferi, feminine/neuter plural aurifere)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | aurifer | auriferă | auriferi | aurifere | ||
| definite | auriferul | aurifera | auriferii | auriferele | |||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | aurifer | aurifere | auriferi | aurifere | ||
| definite | auriferului | auriferei | auriferilor | auriferelor | |||