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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Virgil|origins=la lēx, la ferō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈɫeː.ɡɪ.fɛr]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈlɛː.d͡ʒi.fer]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''lēgifer''' (feminine lēgifera, neuter lēgiferum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|lēx|-fer|t1=law|t2=bearing]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Gaffiot cites Virgil's ''Aeneid'', of Ceres, and Köbler Ovid.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Virgil 70–19 BC and Ovid 43 BC–18 AD.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ Poetic, it meant lawgiving, as of Minos in Ovid's ''Amores'' and ''lēgifera Cerēs'', Ceres as foundress of the social life of mankind, in Virgil.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) As a noun, from Lactantius on, it was a lawgiver.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant lawgiving, and as a noun a lawgiver, as also in Medieval Latin.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of Ceres.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of Minos.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 250–317 AD – Lactantius uses it as a noun.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # Lawgiving.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ===Noun===
+ # A [[m|en|lawgiver]].^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[lēx]]
+ * [[ferō]]
+ * [[lēgislātor]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}