The corpus record — Latin

gemmifer

gemmifer · adj

bearing

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Where it lives

Hercules Oetaeus 2 · 1.78/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

gemmĭfer — Lewis & Short

gemmĭfer, ĕra, ĕrum, adj.gemma, II. -fero,

I bearing or containing gems (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): amnes (Acesinus et Ganges), Plin. 37, 13, 76, § 200; cf. mare (i. e. Erythraei; cf. gemma, II. 2. b.), Prop. 3, 4 (4, 3), 2: corona, Val. Fl. 5, 448.

In the wild

gemmiferi Propertius, Elegiae 3.4.2
Gemmiferi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.13.p2
gemmiferae Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.447
gemmiferae Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.326
gemmiferi Silius Italicus, Punica 15.694
gemmifer Seneca, Medea 1

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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