The corpus record — Latin

aedificator

aedificator · m

A builder

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Where it lives

Atticus 1 · 2.83/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

aedĭfĭcātor — Lewis & Short

aedĭfĭcātor, ōris, m.aedifico.

I A builder: vocaberis aedificator saepium, Vulg. Isa. 58, 12; in the class. period only trop., = dhmiourgo/s: mundi, the maker, architect, Cic. Univ. 2: aedificatores mundi, id. N. D. 1, 9.—

II From the Aug. period adj. (cf. Br. Nep. Ages. 4, 2) with the access. idea of inclination or passion, that is fond of building: nemo illo minus fuit emax, minus aedificator, Nep. Att. 13; Juv. 14, 86; Col. 1, 4, 8; Flor. 1, 8, 4.

Where it came from

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