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ensifer

Adiectivum femininum CEFR B1
[ˈẽː.sɪ.fɛr]

Definitiones

with a sword, wearing a sword, sword-bearing (especially as an epithet of Orion)

adjective, declension-1, declension-2

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Exempla

“ēnsifer Ōrīōn aequore mersus erit”

sword-bearing Orion will be plunged into the sea (The apparent setting of Orion (constellation) beneath an ocean horizon.)

“1835. M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Carolus Hermannus Weise) book 1, line 663 (3.61)”

Does the sword-bearing side of Orion gleam too much?

Gradus CEFR

B1
Medius
Hoc verbum pars est vocabularii CEFR B1 — gradus medius.
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