auctor — Lewis & Short
he that brings about the existence of any object
The corpus record — Latin
auctor
auctor · comm
he that brings about the existence of any object
Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.
Distribution
- Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 18s 1 · 60.24/10k
- Versus Paschales Pro Augusto Dicti 1 · 51.55/10k
- Praefatiunculae 2 · 36.5/10k
- Adversus Hermogenem 25 · 22.51/10k
- De Spectaculis 14 · 22/10k
- De Fide Catholica 4 · 20.75/10k
- Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 18.76/10k
- Pro L. Flacco 19 · 17.42/10k
- Hamartigenia 10 · 15.65/10k
- Cum Populo Gratias Egit 4 · 15.15/10k
- Severus 6 · 14.25/10k
- Pelopidas 1 · 14.04/10k
Densest 12 of 234 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
Attestations
- auctorem Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.1.1
- auctoris Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.8.3
- auctor Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.3.10
- auctore Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.5.8
- auctore Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.12.6
- auctores Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.13.2
6 of 2,391 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
Authority pointers, pending review
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- scan p. 80; entry #1030 Review: Under source audit
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