The corpus record — Latin

danista

danista · m

a money-lender, usurer

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Where it lives

Mostellaria 31 · 32.22/10k
Epidicus 14 · 21.5/10k
Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k

What it meant

dănīsta — Lewis & Short

dănīsta, ae, m., = daneisth/s,

I a money-lender, usurer: fenerator (only in Plautus), Plaut. Epid. 1, 1, 51; 2, 2, 67; id. Most. 3, 1, 6; id. Ps. 1, 3, 53; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 68, 14.—Hence, dănīstĭcus, a, um, adj., = daneistiko/s, money-lending, usurious: genus hominum, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 129.

In the wild

6 of 46 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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