The corpus record — Latin

ensifer

ensifer · adj

sword-bearing

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Where it lives

Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

ensĭfer — Lewis & Short

ensĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj.ensis-fero,

I sword-bearing: Orion (like the Gr. cifh/rhs), Luc. 1, 665: Celeneus, Val. Fl. 3, 406: catervae, Stat. Th. 4, 321.

In the wild

ensifer Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 3.406
ensifer Ovid, Fasti 4.388
Ensiferi Lucan, Pharsalia 1.665
ensiferos Statius, Achilleis 2.129
ensiferas Statius, Thebais 4.321

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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