The corpus record — Latin

sagittifer

sagittifer · adj

Arrow-bearing

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Where it lives

Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

săgittĭfer — Lewis & Short

săgittĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj.sagittafero.

I Arrow-bearing (poet.): pharetra, Ov. M. 1, 468; Stat. Achill. 1, 416: Parthi, armed with arrows, archers, Cat. 11, 6; so, Geloni, Verg. A. 8, 725: pecus, i.e. the porcupine, Claud. Hystr. 48.—

II = Sagittarius, the constellation of the Archer, Manil. 2, 266; 2, 500; 2, 560.

In the wild

sagittiferos Statius, Thebais 7.254
sagittiferas Statius, Achilleis 1.416
sagittiferi Silius Italicus, Punica 15.773
sagittiferosve Catullus, Carmina lyrics.11
sagittifera Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.468
sagittiferosque Vergil, Aeneid 8.725

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.