frugilegus

From frūx (oblique stem in frūg-) +‎ legō +‎ -us (forming compound adjectives).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fruːˈɡɪ.ɫɛ.ɡʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fruˈd͡ʒiː.le.ɡus]
• Hyphenation: frū‧gi‧le‧gus

frūgilegus (feminine frūgilega, neuter frūgilegum); first/second-declension adjective(poetic, hapax legomenon)

2. fruit-gathering (used as an epithet of the ant)
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.624–626:

     hīc nōs frūgilegās adspeximus agmine longō ¶ grande onus exiguō formīcās ōre gerentēs ¶ rūgōsōque suum servantēs cortice callem

     Here we observed fruit-gathering ants in a long column, carrying a great burden in their tiny mouths and keeping their path with wrinkled bark.

First/second-declension adjective.

• “frugilegus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “frugilegus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “frugilegus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers