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Alternative forms

• lāserpīcifer

Adjective

lāsarpīcifer m ‎(feminine lāsarpīcifera, neuter lāsarpīciferum); first/second declension

1. silphium bearing, silphium producing
   • ca. 84-54 BCE, Catullus, Ad Lesbiam, poem 7, line 4-5

     […] quam magnus numerus Libyssae harenae / lasarpiciferis iacet Cyrenis

     […] As great as the number of Libyan sands / That lie in silphium-bearing Cyrene

Inflection

First/second declension, nominative masculine singular in -er.

Related terms

• lāserpīciārius
• lāserpīciātus
• lāserpīcium

References

• lasarpicifer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lasarpicifer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lasarpicifer”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.