caelicola

Latin

Alternative forms

• coelicola

Etymology

From caelum (“heaven; sky”) +‎ -cola.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kae̯ˈli.ko.la/, [käe̯ˈlʲɪkɔɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈli.ko.la/, [t͡ʃeˈliːkolä]

Noun

caelicola m or f (genitive caelicolae); first declension

1. 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 [suddenly] she presented herself to me – far brighter than [I had] ever seen [her] before – worthy to be viewed, and with clarity, shining through the darkness in [all her] splendor: [my] gracious mother, revealed [as a] goddess, both in form and stature as she was wont to appear to the heaven-dwelling gods.”
     (Venus reveals her divine appearance to Aeneas.)

2. a worshipper of the heavens

Declension

Note that the genitive plural has the alternative form caelicolum for caelicolārum.

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	caelicola	caelicolae
genitive	caelicolae	caelicolārum
dative	caelicolae	caelicolīs
accusative	caelicolam	caelicolās
ablative	caelicolā	caelicolīs
vocative	caelicola	caelicolae

Related terms

Related terms

• caeles
• caelestīnus
• caelestis
• caelicus
• caelifer
• caelifluus
• caeligenus
• caeliger
• caeliloquus
• caelipotēns
• caelitēs
• caelitus
• caelum

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.