The corpus record — Latin

legifer

legifer · adj

lawgiving

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Where it lives

Ludus Septem Sapientum 1 · 7.58/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

lēgĭfer — Lewis & Short

lēgĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj.lex-fero,

I lawgiving (poet.).

I Adj.: Minos, Ov. Am. 3, 10, 41: legifera Ceres (as the foundress of the social life of mankind), Verg. A. 4, 58. —

II Subst.: lēgĭfer, ĕri, m., a law-giver, applied to Moses, Lact. 4, 17, 7; Tert. Apol. 19 fin.; Prud. stef. 3, 363; Vulg. Isa. 33, 22.

In the wild

legiferae Vergil, Aeneid 4.58
legifer Ovid, Amores 3.10.41
legifer Ausonius, Ludus Septem Sapientum 3.72
legiferos Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.33
legifer Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 2.363

Where it came from

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