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adulter

adulter · m

one who approaches another

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Where it lives

Controversiae 70 · 10.61/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 19 · 8.86/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 2 · 5.49/10k
Saturae 13 · 5.22/10k
De Paenitentia 2 · 4.91/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 4 · 4.81/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
Suasoriae 4 · 3.89/10k
Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 1 · 3.77/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 2 · 3.64/10k
Pro M. Caelio 3 · 3.54/10k

Densest 12 of 74 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ăd-ulter — Lewis & Short

ăd-ulter, ĕri, m., and ădultĕra, ae, f.alter, acc. to Fest.: adulter et adultera dicuntur, quia et ille ad alteram et haec ad alterum se conferunt, p. 22 Müll., orig.

I one who approaches another (from unlawful or criminal love), an adulterer or adulteress (as an adj. also, but only in the poets).

I Prop.: quis ganeo, quis nepos, quis adulter, quae mulier infamis, etc., Cic. Cat. 2, 4: sororis adulter Clodius, id. Sest. 39; so id. Fin. 2, 9; Ov. H. 20, 8; Tac. A. 3, 24; Vulg. Deut. 22, 22: adultera, Hor. C. 3, 3, 25; Ov. M. 10, 347; Quint. 5, 10, 104; Suet. Calig. 24; Vulg. Deut. 22, 22; and with mulier: via mulieris adulterae, ib. Prov. 30, 20; ib. Ezech. 16, 32.—Also of animals: adulter, Grat. Cyneg. 164; Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 304: adultera, Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 43.—Poet. in gen. of unlawful love, without the access. idea of adultery, a paramour: Danaën munierant satis nocturnis ab adulteris, Hor. C. 3, 16, 1 sq.; so id. ib. 1, 36, 19; Ov. Ib. 338.—

II Adulter solidorum, i. e. monetae, a counterfeiter or adulterator of coin, Const. 5, Cod. Th.—

III The offspring of unlawful love: nothus, a bastard (eccl.): adulteri et non filii estis, Vulg. Heb. 12, 8.

2. adulter — Walde–Hofmann

adulter, eri m, ,Ehebrecher* (seit Plaut, rom.; adultera, -ae und adulterö seit Cato, rom., -iwm n. seit Plt.): vl. mit Bréal MSL. 4, 82, Stabile Class. e Neol. 7,101ff. Rückbld. aus adulteräre, dies zunächst „fälschen, verderben" (seit Pit.) aus *ad-alteräre, dann übtr. „ehebrechen“ als „schänden* (seit Cato, vgl. matronas -are Suet. und vitiäre ,fülschen, schünden* ; adulter „verfälscht“ seit Ov. ist Rückbld. für … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. adulter, p. 47]

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. adulter (scan p. 47; entry #107).

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