The corpus record — Latin

Baptista

Baptista · m

a baptizer

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Where it lives

Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 4 · 0.91/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k

What it meant

baptista — Lewis & Short

baptista, ae, m., = baptisth/s,

I a baptizer, baptist, kat' e)coxh/n, of John, the forerunner of Christ, Sedul. Pasch. 2, 143; Vulg. Matt. 3, 1.

In the wild

baptista Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.36
Baptista Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1.27.p12
baptistam Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 8
baptista Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 5.376
Baptista Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 125.7
Baptistae Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 60.3

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. baptista (scan p. 90; entry #1168).

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