adjectivefirst/second-declension adjective
nemorivagus
nemorivagus (feminine nemorivaga, neuter nemorivagum)
Classical[nɛ.mɔˈrɪ.wa.ɡʊs]Ecclesiastical[ne.moˈriː.va.ɡus]
Meaning
- adjectivewandering in the woods
Ego vīta agam sub altīs Phrygiae columinibus ubi cerva silvicultrīx, ubi aper nemorivagus?
I shall spend my life under the high summits of Phrygia where the forest-dwelling stag and the woodland-wandering wild boar are? Now, now hurts what I've done, now and now I regret.c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 63.71–73
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | nemorivagus | nemorivaga | nemorivagum |
| genitive | nemorivagī | nemorivagae | nemorivagī |
| dative | nemorivagō | nemorivagae | nemorivagō |
| accusative | nemorivagum | nemorivagam | nemorivagum |
| ablative | nemorivagō | nemorivagā | nemorivagō |
| vocative | nemorivage | nemorivaga | nemorivagum |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | nemorivagī | nemorivagae | nemorivaga |
| genitive | nemorivagōrum | nemorivagārum | nemorivagōrum |
| dative | nemorivagīs | nemorivagīs | nemorivagīs |
| accusative | nemorivagōs | nemorivagās | nemorivaga |
| ablative | nemorivagīs | nemorivagīs | nemorivagīs |
| vocative | nemorivagī | nemorivagae | nemorivaga |
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
nemorivagus adj.
nemus+vagus, wandering in the woods : aper, Ct.
Origins
From nemus (“grove; wood”) + vagus (“wandering”).