Translingual

Proper noun

Rangifer m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cervidae – the reindeer or caribou.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort; Eutheria - infraclass; Epitheria - magnorder; Laurasiatheria - superorder; Cetartiodactyla - clade; Artiodactyla - order; Cervidae - family; Capreolinae - subfamily; Rangiferini - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Rangifer tarandus

Latin

Noun

rangifer m ‎(genitive rangiferī); second declension

1. A reindeer; a caribou.

Inflection

Second declension, nominative singular in -er.

¹May also be rangifere.

Quotations

• 1681: Lappones hieme cum ſuis rangiferis tranſmigrantes ex nive condenſata sibi tuguria inſtruunt, ac ſupernè ramis arborum & nive ſuper inſtrata contegunt, adverſus frigus duriſſimum ſatis muniti , quando nec alia eorum eſt veſtis, quam Rangiferorum pellis nudæ cuti aptata. —Speculum imaginum veritatis occultae, R. P. Iacobus Masenius

  (The Lapps, migrating in winter with their reindeer, build up huts for themselves out of packed snow and covered with branches of trees on top and strewn snow, are sufficiently armed against the harshest cold, even when no other is their clothing than the pelt of their Reindeer put on their naked skin.)

Synonyms

• (reindeer): tarandrus

References

• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “rangifer”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• rangifer in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016