The corpus record — Latin

Saetiger

Saetiger · adj

bristle-bearing

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Where it lives

Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

saetĭ-ger — Lewis & Short

saetĭ-ger (sēt-), gĕra, gĕrum, adj.seta-gero,

I bristle-bearing, having coarse hair or bristles, bristly, setaceous (poet.): sus, Lucr. 5, 969; 6, 974; Verg. A. 12, 170; Ov. M. 10, 549: pecus, id. ib. 14, 289: vestis, of goats' hair, Paul. Nol. Ep. 49, 12.—As subst.: saetĭger, gĕri, m. (sc. ferus), the bristle-bearer, bristler, as a poet. designation of the boar, Ov. M. 8, 376; Mart 13, 93, 1.

In the wild

Saetiger Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 4.M7
saetiger Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.376
saetiger Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
saetiger Martial, Epigrammata 13.93.1
saetiger Seneca, Medea 1

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.