contus (“long pole, pike”) +‎ -ger (“bearing”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔn.tɪ.ɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔn.ti.d͡ʒer]

contiger (feminine contigera, neuter contigerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. spear-bearing

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

contiger m (genitive contigerī); second declension

1. a spear-bearer, a lancer

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

• “contiger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contiger”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.