coniger

From cōnus (“cone”) + -ger (“bearing”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkoː.nɪ.ɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔː.ni.d͡ʒer]

cōniger (feminine cōnigera, neuter cōnigerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. (hapax legomenon) having conical fruit, coniferous

   Synonym: cōnifer

   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 64:

     nam velut in summo quatientem bracchia Tauro
     quercum aut conigeram sudanti cortice pinum
     indomitus turbo contorquens flamine robur
     eruit […]

     • Translation by Leonard C. Smithers

       For as an oak waving its boughs on Taurus' top, or a coniferous pine with sweating stem, is uprooted by savage storm, twisting its trunk with its blast […]

Attested once in the Classical period (see quotations above).

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

• “coniger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “coniger”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “coniger”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.