baccifer

Latin

Etymology

From bacca (“berry”) +‎ -fer (“carrying”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbak.ki.fer/, [ˈbäkːɪfɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbat.t͡ʃi.fer/, [ˈbätː͡ʃifer]

Adjective

baccifer (feminine baccifera, neuter bacciferum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. bearing or having berries, bacciferous

Declension

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

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	baccifer	baccifera	bacciferum		bacciferī	bacciferae	baccifera
genitive	bacciferī	bacciferae	bacciferī		bacciferōrum	bacciferārum	bacciferōrum
dative	bacciferō	bacciferae	bacciferō		bacciferīs
accusative	bacciferum	bacciferam	bacciferum		bacciferōs	bacciferās	baccifera
ablative	bacciferō	bacciferā	bacciferō		bacciferīs
vocative	baccifer	baccifera	bacciferum		bacciferī	bacciferae	baccifera

Descendants

• English: bacciferous
• French: baccifère
• Italian: baccifero

References

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