The corpus record — Latin

balneator

balneator · m

one who has the care of a bath

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 1 · 3.77/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
Pro M. Caelio 1 · 1.18/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

balnĕātor — Lewis & Short

balnĕātor, ōris, m. (acc. to

Serv. ad Verg. A. 12, 159, and Prob. p. 1452 P.,

I gen. comm., yet v. balneatrix) [balneum], one who has the care of a bath, a bath-keeper, balaneu/s, Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 90; id. Truc. 2, 3, 4: balnearis, Cic. Cael. 26, 62; id. Phil. 13, 12, 26; Plin. 18, 17, 44, § 156; Dig. 3, 2, 4, § 2; ib. 19, 2, 30, § 1 al.—Facetè, of Neptune: edepol, Neptune, es balneator frigidus, Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 43.

In the wild

bálneator Plautus, Poenulus 3.3
balneator Martial, Epigrammata 3.7.3
balneatorem Historia Augusta, Commodus Antoninus 1
balneatorem Historia Augusta, Divus Claudius 14
balneatores Plautus, Truculentus 2.3
balneatore Cicero, Letters to Atticus 14.5.1

6 of 15 attestations shown.

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.