proper noun
Ignĭgĕna
Meaning
- the fire-born
Ignĭgĕna, ae, m. ignis-gigno,
I. the fire-born, a poetical epithet of Bacchus, whose mother, Semele, was killed by lightning, Ov. M. 4, 12; cf. ib. 3, 305 sq.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
īgnigena ae, m
ignis+GEN-, the fire-born, son of fire (of Bacchus), O.