veliger

English

Etymology

From Latin vēliger (“sail-bearing”).

Noun

veliger (plural veligers)

  1. (zoology) The planktonic larva of many kinds of marine and freshwater gastropod molluscs, as well as most bivalve molluscs.

Latin

Etymology

vēlum (“sail”) +‎ -ger (“bearing”)

Pronunciation

Adjective

vēliger (feminine vēligera, neuter vēligerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

  1. sail-bearing, covered with sails

Declension

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

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative vēliger vēligera vēligerum vēligerī vēligerae vēligera
Genitive vēligerī vēligerae vēligerī vēligerōrum vēligerārum vēligerōrum
Dative vēligerō vēligerō vēligerīs
Accusative vēligerum vēligeram vēligerum vēligerōs vēligerās vēligera
Ablative vēligerō vēligerā vēligerō vēligerīs
Vocative vēliger vēligera vēligerum vēligerī vēligerae vēligera

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