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Webster 1913 Edition
Veliger
‖
Vel′i-ger
(vĕl′ĭ-jẽr)
, Noun.
[NL., fr. L.
velum
a veil + gerere
bear.] (Zool.)
Any larval gastropod or bivalve mollusk in the stage when it is furnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming.
Definition 2024
veliger
veliger
English
Noun
veliger (plural veligers)
- (zoology) The planktonic larva of many kinds of marine and freshwater gastropod molluscs, as well as most bivalve molluscs.
Latin
Etymology
vēlum (“sail”) + -iger (“bearing”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈweː.li.ɡer/, [ˈweː.lɪ.ɡɛr]
Adjective
vēliger m (feminine vēligera, neuter vēligerum); first/second declension
Declension
First/second declension, nominative masculine singular in -er.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | vēliger | vēligera | vēligerum | vēligerī | vēligerae | vēligera | |
| genitive | vēligerī | vēligerae | vēligerī | vēligerōrum | vēligerārum | vēligerōrum | |
| dative | vēligerō | vēligerō | vēligerīs | ||||
| accusative | vēligerum | vēligeram | vēligerum | vēligerōs | vēligerās | vēligera | |
| ablative | vēligerō | vēligerā | vēligerō | vēligerīs | |||
| vocative | vēliger | vēligera | vēligerum | vēligerī | vēligerae | vēligera | |
References
- veliger in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “veliger”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.