saetiger

Latin

Alternative forms

• sētiger

Etymology

From saeta (“bristle”) +‎ -ger (“bearing”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsae̯.tɪ.ɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛː.ti.d͡ʒer]

Adjective

saetiger (feminine saetigera, neuter saetigerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. bristly, bristle-bearing, having coarse hair or bristles, setaceous
2. (nominalized, poetic) a hog (a pig or boar)
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 12.169–171:

     […] , puraque in veste sacerdos saetigeri fetum suis intonsamque bidentem attulit admovitque pecus flagrantibus aris.

     […] , in immaculate clothes the priest to the burning altars led the four-legged offerings, the young of a boar and an unshorn lamb.

Declension

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

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	saetiger	saetigera	saetigerum		saetigerī	saetigerae	saetigera
genitive	saetigerī	saetigerae	saetigerī		saetigerōrum	saetigerārum	saetigerōrum
dative	saetigerō	saetigerae	saetigerō		saetigerīs
accusative	saetigerum	saetigeram	saetigerum		saetigerōs	saetigerās	saetigera
ablative	saetigerō	saetigerā	saetigerō		saetigerīs
vocative	saetiger	saetigera	saetigerum		saetigerī	saetigerae	saetigera

References

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