claviger

English

Etymology 1

From Latin claviger, from clava (“club”) + gerere (“to carry”).

Noun

claviger (plural clavigers)

1. One who carries a club; a club bearer.
   • 2013, Elon Dann, Clockwise to Titan:

     They goaded him into testing one of his planes, tricked him into throwing one out of the window to see if it would glide, and it did; it glided right into a claviger patrolling outside.

   • 2014, Matt Weber, The Dandelion Knight:

     But he was the claviger, and he took that duty seriously. And he never helped her. He followed her, to protect her, because that was his job.

2. (entomology) A group within genus Lasius (formerly considered a subgenera Acanthomyops) of bright yellow to orange species of ant that have 3 maxillary palps and give off a distinctive citronella odor when disturbed. The group name comes from their club-shaped palps.
   • 1968, Merle Wesley Wing, Taxonomic Revision of the Nearctic Genus Acanthomyops, page 81:

     Standing body hairs are relatively less numerous and longer in claviger.

   • 2007, Brian L. Fisher, Stefan P. Cover, Ants of North America: A Guide to the Genera, page 104:

     The workers of flavus group species are sometimes confused with claviger group workers, but can be distinguished by relatively dense pubescence all over the body, which creates a dull overall appearances.

   • 2012, Aaron M. Ellison, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Elizabeth J. Farnsworth, A Field Guide to the Ants of New England, page 179:

     All of the species of the claviger group are believed to be temporary social parasits of other Lasius species, but the actual hosts are not all known.

3. (entomology) A species of mosquito, Anopheles claviger.
   • 1949, Agriculture Handbook - Issue 152, page 117:

     Over much of its range claviger lays eggs without a blood meal, whereas forms requiring blood for egg laying have been observed on the Black Sea coast.

   • 1957, Mosquito Reprints: Matheson Collection - Volume 1, page 335:

     Claviger is Palearctic in distribution, extending from the British Isles to the Pamir Mountains of Turkestan and the Ob River of western Siberia.

   • 1984, A. R. Zahar, Vector Bionomics in the Epidemiology and Control of Malaria, page 98:

     The usual breeding places of claviger are springs and wells.

Derived terms

• clavigerous

Etymology 2

From Latin clāviger, from clāvis (“key”) + gerere (“to carry”).

Noun

claviger (plural clavigers)

1. One who carries the keys to a place; a keyholder.
   • 2010, Ronald Stansbury, A Companion to Pastoral Care in the Late Middle Ages (1200-1500):

     They were incensed that the claviger Bernat Mola not only slept in the church, but that by night he allowed “dishonest people and tricksters” in to gamble.

   • 2011, Helen J. Nicholson, The proceedings against the Templars in the British Isles, page lii:

     Hugh of Tadcaster remarked that he had been claviger before being admitted as a brother of the Order, and that he had asked the master – presumably he meant the grand commander of England - to admit him as a brother:

Anagrams

• cavegirl

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈklaː.u̯i.ɡer/, [ˈkɫ̪äːu̯ɪɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkla.vi.d͡ʒer/, [ˈkläːvid͡ʒer]

Etymology 1

clāva (“club, cudgel”) +‎ -ger (“bearing”)

Adjective

clāviger (feminine clāvigera, neuter clāvigerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. club-bearing

Usage notes

Used especially as an epithet of Hercules.

Declension

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

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	clāviger	clāvigera	clāvigerum		clāvigerī	clāvigerae	clāvigera
genitive	clāvigerī	clāvigerae	clāvigerī		clāvigerōrum	clāvigerārum	clāvigerōrum
dative	clāvigerō	clāvigerae	clāvigerō		clāvigerīs
accusative	clāvigerum	clāvigeram	clāvigerum		clāvigerōs	clāvigerās	clāvigera
ablative	clāvigerō	clāvigerā	clāvigerō		clāvigerīs
vocative	clāviger	clāvigera	clāvigerum		clāvigerī	clāvigerae	clāvigera

Related terms

• clāva

Etymology 2

clāvis (“key”) +‎ -ger (“bearing”)

Noun

clāviger m (genitive clāvigerī); second declension

1. the key-bearer

Usage notes

Used especially as an epithet of Janus, god of doors.

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

	singular	plural
nominative	clāviger	clāvigerī
genitive	clāvigerī	clāvigerōrum
dative	clāvigerō	clāvigerīs
accusative	clāvigerum	clāvigerōs
ablative	clāvigerō	clāvigerīs
vocative	clāviger	clāvigerī

Related terms

• clāvicārius
• clāvicula
• clāvis

References

• “clāvĭger¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “clāvĭger²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “claviger”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• claviger in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “claviger”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers