The corpus record — Latin

cavillator

cavillator · m

a jester

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Miles Gloriosus 1 · 0.79/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

căvillātor — Lewis & Short

căvillātor (caulāt-, ōris, m.id.,

Plaut. Truc. 3, 2, 13),

I a jester, jeerer, caviller: facetus, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 46: probus, id. Truc. 3, 2, 15; * Cic. Att. 1, 13, 2; Gell. 4, 20, 3.—

II Meton., a sophist, Sen. Ep. 102, 20.

Where it came from

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