The corpus record — Latin

bovinator

bovinator · m

A brawler

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Where it lives

Noctes Atticae 3 · 0.27/10k

What it meant

1. bŏvīnātor — Lewis & Short

bŏvīnātor, ōris, m.bovinor.

I A brawler, blusterer, reviler, acc. to the Gloss.: bovinatores qorubopoioi/, qru/llon poiou=ntes h) taraxh/n; v. bovinor.—

II = tergiversator, one who seeks evasions (the figure drawn perh. from the holding back of draught cattle), Lucil. ap. Gell. 11, 7, 9; cf. Non. p. 79, 26.

2. bovinator — Walde–Hofmann

bovinator, -ürís m. etwa ,tergiversator* (Lucil. 417), bovinätwr „convieiatur“ (Paul Fest. 30, Cl; zur Schreibung bom-, bombs. Götz Festschr. Kluge 42): da es sich wrsch. um ein einziges, von Lucilius gebrauchtes lokales (Suessa Aurunca?) Fremdwort handelt, auf das auch die Verriusglosse zurückgehen dürfte (daher bovinátor für bovinätur mit L. Müller zu schreiben; danach bavinäri Cl) und da die Bedeutungsangaben … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. bovinator, p. 145]

In the wild

bovinator Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 11.7.7
bovinatorem Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 11.7.9
bovinator Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 11.7.7

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. bovinator (scan p. 145; entry #431). Root candidates: *bouá-.

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