līnum (“flax, linen”) +‎ -ger (“bearing”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈliː.nɪ.ɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈliː.ni.d͡ʒer]

līniger (feminine līnigera, neuter līnigerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. wearing linen, clothed in linen.
   • 12 CE – 13 CE, Ovidius, Epistulae ex Ponto 1.1.51

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

• līnifer

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