FromLatincōnifer(“bearing cones”), bysurface analysis,Latincōnus(“cone”) +-fer.
conifer (pluralconifers)
- (botany) A plant belonging to the orderConiferales; acone-bearing seedplant withvascular tissue, usually atree.
cōnus(“cone”) +-fer(“-bearing”)
cōnifer (femininecōnifera,neutercōniferum);first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in-er)
- (hapax legomenon) bearingconicalfruit
- Synonym:cōniger
29BCE – 19BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid3.677–681:
- cernimus astantis nequiquam lumine torvo
Aetnaeos fratres caelo capita alta ferentis,
concilium horrendum: quales cum vertice celso
aeriae quercus autconiferae cyparissi
constiterunt, silva alta Iovis lucusve Dianae.- Translation by David West
- We saw the brotherhood of Etna standing there helpless, each with his one eye glaring and head held high in the sky, a fearsome gathering, standing like high-topped mountain oaks orcone-bearing cypresses in Jupiter's soaring forest or the grove of Diana.
Attested once in the Classical period (see quotations above).
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in-er).
- “conifer”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “conifer”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Borrowed fromLatinconifer,Frenchconifère.
conifer n (pluralconifere)
- conifer
