phager

Latin

Alternative forms

• pager, pagrus

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φάγρος (phágros, “sea-bream, braize, Pagrus vulgaris”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʰa.ɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.d͡ʒer]

Noun

phager m (genitive phagrī); second declension

1. A kind of fish

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	phager	phagrī
genitive	phagrī	phagrōrum
dative	phagrō	phagrīs
accusative	phagrum	phagrōs
ablative	phagrō	phagrīs
vocative	phager	phagrī

Descendants

(Note: see pagrus.)

References

• “phager”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “phager”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “phager”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.