The corpus record — Latin

falcifer

falcifer · adj

sickle-bearing

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Where it lives

Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

falcĭfer — Lewis & Short

falcĭfer, ĕra, ĕrum, adj.falx + fero,

I sickle-bearing, holding a scythe or sickle.

I In gen.: covinus, Sil. 17, 418: manus, Ov. M. 13, 930.—

II In partic., an epithet of Saturn: senex, Ov. Ib. 218: Tonans, Mart. 5, 16, 5.

In the wild

falciferique Ovid, Ibis 216
falciferi Martial, Epigrammata 5.16.5
falcifero Ovid, Fasti 5.627
falciferi Martial, Epigrammata 11.6.1
falciferos Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.1301
falciferi Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 15.61

6 of 9 attestations shown.

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.