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mellifer
mellifer
Latin
Adjective
mellifer m (feminine mellifera, neuter melliferum); first/second declension
- honey-bearing, honey-producing, melliferous
Inflection
First/second declension, nominative masculine singular in -er.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | mellifer | mellifera | melliferum | melliferī | melliferae | mellifera | |
| genitive | melliferī | melliferae | melliferī | melliferōrum | melliferārum | melliferōrum | |
| dative | melliferō | melliferō | melliferīs | ||||
| accusative | melliferum | melliferam | melliferum | melliferōs | melliferās | mellifera | |
| ablative | melliferō | melliferā | melliferō | melliferīs | |||
| vocative | mellifer | mellifera | melliferum | melliferī | melliferae | mellifera | |
Synonyms
- (honey-bearing): melliger
Related terms
Related terms
Descendants
- English: melliferous
References
- mellifer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mellifer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mellifer”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.