The corpus record — Latin

bacifer

bacifer · adj

Bearing berries

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Where it lives

Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

bācĭfer — Lewis & Short

bācĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj.baca-fero.

I Bearing berries: taxus, Plin. 16, 10, 20, § 50 (al. leg. bacas fert): hedera, Sen. Oedip. 414.—

II Acc. to baca, I. B., bearing olives: Pallas, Ov. Am. 2, 16, 8: Sabinus, Sil. 3, 596.

In the wild

bacifera Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.10.p10
baciferam Ovid, Amores 2.16.8
bacifera Seneca, Oedipus 1
bacifero Silius Italicus, Punica 3.596

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.