taedĭfer — Lewis & Short
taedĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj.taedafero,
I torch-bearing: dea, i. e. Ceres, who kindled a pine-torch on Mount Ætna, in order to search for Proserpine, Ov. H. 2, 42.
The corpus record — Latin
taedifer
taedifer · adj
torch-bearing
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
- Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- taedifera Ovid, Fasti 3.786
- taediferae Ovid, Epistulae 2.42
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.