The corpus record — Latin

flammifer

flammifer · adj

flame-bearing

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Where it lives

Hercules 2 · 2.63/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Argonautica 4 · 1.08/10k
Punica 8 · 1.05/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k

What it meant

flammĭfer — Lewis & Short

flammĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj.flamma + fero,

I flame-bearing, i. e. flaming, burning, fiery (poet.): fer mi auxilium; pestem abige a me, flammiferam hanc vim, quae me excruciat, etc., Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. 50 ed. Vahl.): crinis (stellae), Ov. M. 15, 849: currus solis, Sil. 5, 55: Olympus, Val. Fl. 1, 4: nox, i. e. lit up by torches, Luc. 5, 402.

In the wild

flammiferos Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 7.185
flammiferis Silius Italicus, Punica 1.257
flammifera Seneca, Hercules 1
Flammiferam Ovid, Epistulae 16.46
Flammifera Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.796
flammiferam Cicero, Lucullus 89

6 of 24 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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