The corpus record — Latin

abactor

abactor · m

one who drives off, a driver off

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

ăbactor — Lewis & Short

ăbactor, ōris, m.abigo,=abigeus and abigeator,

I one who drives off, a driver off (late Latin): pecorum, Firm. Astr. 6, 31; cf. Isid. Orig. 10, 14; and boum, Min. Fel. O-ct. 5; and absol., a cuttle-stealer or thief, App. M. 7, p. 199 med. Elm.; Paul. Sent. ō, 18, 1.

In the wild

abactorem Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.26

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.