spinifer

From spīna (“thorn, spine, prickle”) + -fer (“carrying”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈspiː.nɪ.fɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈspiː.ni.fer]

spīnifer (feminine spīnifera or spīnifra, neuter spīniferum or spīnifrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er; two different stems)

1. thorny, prickly, spiny

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er; two different stems).

• spīna

• “spinifer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “spinifer”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.