The corpus record — Latin

caducifer

caducifer · adj

bearing a herald

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Where it lives

Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k

What it meant

cādūcĭfer — Lewis & Short

cādūcĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj.caduceusfero,

I bearing a herald's staff, an epithet of Mercury in Ovid: Atlantiades, Ov. M. 8, 627; and absol., id. ib. 2, 708; id. F. 4, 605; 5, 449.

In the wild

caducifer Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.708
Caducifer Ovid, Fasti 4.605
caducifer Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.627
Caducifer Ovid, Fasti 5.449

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.