The corpus record — Latin

letifer

letifer · adj

death-bringing, death-dealing, deadly, fatal

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Pharsalia 8 · 1.57/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Punica 11 · 1.44/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Argonautica 4 · 1.08/10k
Thebais 6 · 0.96/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lētĭfer — Lewis & Short

lētĭfer (lēth-), fĕra, fĕrum, adj.letum,

I death-bringing, death-dealing, deadly, fatal (poet.): arcus, Verg. A. 10, 169: ictus, Ov. M. 8, 362: dextra, id. ib. 12, 606: vestis, id. ib. 9, 166: anguis, Stat. Th. 5, 628: certamen, Cat. 64, 390: annus, Verg. A. 3, 139: autumnus, Juv. 4, 57.—In prose: rabies letifer morbus canibus, Col. 7, 12 fin.—Transf.: locus, a place in the body where a wound is fatal, a mortal part, Ov. M. 5, 133.

In the wild

6 of 50 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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