The corpus record — Latin

ignifer

ignifer · adj

fire-bearing

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Where it lives

Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 2 · 1.78/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
De Rerum Natura 4 · 0.82/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ignĭfer — Lewis & Short

ignĭfer, ĕra, ĕrum, adj.ignis-fero,

I fire-bearing, fiery (poet.).

I Lit.: aether, Lucr. 5, 459; 490: fulmen, id. 6, 379: lampades, id. 2, 25: axis, Ov. M. 2, 59: sidus, Prud. ap. Symm. 2, 1027: tauri, Val. Fl. 8, 342.—*

II Trop.: ignifero mentes furiabat in iram Hortatu, Sil. 17, 294.

In the wild

igniferi Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.1028
ignifera Seneca, Medea 1
igniferas Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
igniferi Seneca, Phaedra 1
ignifero Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.59
ignifer Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.459

6 of 18 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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