The corpus record — Latin

mellĭfex

mellĭfex · m

a honey-maker

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What it meant

mellĭfex — Lewis & Short

mellĭfex, fĭcis, m.mel-facio, i. q. mellarius, 1.,

I a honey-maker, i. e. a keeper of bees: ubicunque saltus idonei sunt mellifici, Col. 9, 8, 8; better referred to mellificus, q. v.

Where it came from

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