adjective
pinnĭger
Meaning
- feather-bearing
pinnĭger, gĕra, gĕrum, adj. 1. pinnagero,
I. feather-bearing, i. e. feathered, winged.
I. Lit.: pinnigero, non armigero in corpore tela exercentur, i. e. against birds, Att. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 33, 1 (Trag. Rel. p. 176 Rib.):
amor, Lucr. 5, 1074.—II. Transf, having fins, finny:
piscis, Ov. M. 13, 963; Coripp. Johann. 4, 981.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
pinniger (not penn-), gera, gerum, adj.
1 pinna +GES-, feathered, winged : alterum (animantium genus), i. e. birds.—Having fins, finny : piscis, O.