The corpus record — Latin

caelifer

caelifer · adj

supporting the heavens

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Where it lives

Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

caelĭfer — Lewis & Short

caelĭfer (coel-), ĕra, ĕrum, adj.caelum-fero,

I supporting the heavens, poet. epi. thet of Atlas, Verg. A. 6, 796.—And of Hercules: manus, Sen. Herc. Fur. 528: laudes, extolling to heaven, Mart. Cap. 6, § 637

In the wild

caeliferi Silius Italicus, Punica 15.142
caelifer Statius, Thebais 5.430
caeliferique Statius, Silvae 1.1.60
caelifero Ovid, Fasti 5.83
caeliferam Seneca, Hercules 1
caelifer Vergil, Aeneid 6.796

Where it came from

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