The corpus record — Latin

laniger

laniger · adj

wool-bearing, fleecy

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Where it lives

Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

lānĭger — Lewis & Short

lānĭger, gĕra, gĕrum, adj.lana-gero,

I wool-bearing, fleecy (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): pecus, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44: greges, Verg. G. 3, 287: arbores, i. e. cottontrees, Plin. 12, 10, 21, § 38: fertilitas, of insects. id. 11, 24, 28, § 80.—

II Subst.

A lānĭger, gĕri, m., a ram, Ov. M. 7, 312. —Of a lamb: timens, Phaedr. 1, 1, 6.—Of the constellation of the Ram, for Aries, Manil. 1, 672; 2, 200 al.—

B lānĭgĕra, ae, f., a lamb, sheep, Sil. 15, 703.

In the wild

laniger Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.312
laniger Seneca, Oedipus 1
Laniger Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 1.1.6

Where it came from

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