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latin for "death bringer"

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hazzatheawesome | 10:04 Tue 27th Jul 2010 | History
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there wasn't a language section to put this in so i thought i might ask here.
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I saw 'Mortifer' somewhere. (mor = death, fer = carry) I don't know if it's any sort of real word, but I don't suppose 'death bringer' is either.
Lucifer means 'bringer of light', so Mortifer could well mean bringer of death
'mortifer' is perfectly fine, and is a very "Latin" way of agglutinating two root nouns to form a compound noun. Cf 'Christopher' which means literally Christ bearer etc.

I was about to explain things like gender and declension, but it's all listed here:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mortifer

Obviously, something which "brings death" is deadly / fatal, so 'mortifer' fits the bill perfectly.
do you know if the word was actually used by Romans, MarkRae, or if it's a modern coinage?
Angelus Mortis?
> do you know if the word was actually used by Romans

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mortifer
I saw the link, MarkRae, but it doesn't quite answer my question. It's no doubt Latin but is it the Latin of the caesars or of (say) the modern Vatican?
"Haec ratio quondam morborum et mortifer aestus finibus in Cecropis funestos reddidit agros uastauitque uias..." Virgil
thanks, MarkRae.
Mortis nuntius ... Death Messenger

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