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Latin
Etymology
From caelum (“heaven; sky”) + -cola.
Pronunciation
Noun
caelicola m or f (genitive caelicolae); first declension
- an inhabitant of heaven, deity, god, goddess
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.589–592:
- “Cum mihi sē nōn ante oculīs tam clāra videndam
obtulit et pūrā per noctem in lūce refulsit:
alma parēns, cōnfessa deam, quālīsque vidērī
caelicolīs et quanta solet .”- “When she presented herself to me – far brighter than ever seen before – worthy to be viewed, and with clarity, shining through the darkness in splendor: gracious mother, revealed goddess, both in form and stature as she was wont to appear to the heaven-dwelling gods.”
(Venus reveals her divine appearance to Aeneas.)
- a worshipper of the heavens
Declension
Note that the genitive plural has the alternative form caelicolum for caelicolārum.
First-declension noun.
References
- “caelicola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caelicola”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caelicola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.