The corpus record — Latin

velifer

velifer · adj

sail-bearing

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Where it lives

Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

vēlĭfer — Lewis & Short

vēlĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj.velum-fero,

I sail-bearing: carina, Prop. 3, 9 (4, 8), 35; Ov. M. 15, 719; Luc. 1, 495: malus, Val. Fl. 1, 126: venti, Sen. Thyest. 129.

In the wild

veliferi Lucan, Pharsalia 1.500
velifero Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.126
veliferi Statius, Silvae 5.1.244
veliferam Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.719
velifera Propertius, Elegiae 3.9.33
velifera Ovid, Ex Ponto 3.2.67

Where it came from

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

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