falcifer

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

falcĭfer, ĕra, ĕrum, adj. [falx + fero], sickle-bearing, holding a scythe or sickle.

I In gen.: covinus, Sil. 17, 418: manus, Ov. M. 13, 930.—

II In partic., an epithet of Saturn : senex, Ov. Ib. 218: Tonans, Mart. 5, 16, 5.

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