The corpus record — Latin

dator

dator · m

a giver

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Where it lives

Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
De Paenitentia 2 · 4.91/10k
De Testimionio Animae 1 · 4.47/10k
Truculentus 2 · 2.44/10k
Cistellaria 1 · 1.91/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
Adversus Marcionem 2 · 0.24/10k

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

What it meant

dător — Lewis & Short

dător, ōris, m.id.,

I a giver (except in Plant. rare).

I In gen., Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 33; 2, 7, 18; fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 616 P.: assit laetitiae Bacchus dator, Verg. A. 1, 734: hilarem enim datorem diligit Deus, Vulg. 2 Cor. 9, 7.—

II Esp. in playing ball, the slave who hands the ball to the player, opp. factor, the player himself, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 18.

In the wild

datori Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.16
datorum Ausonius, Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 3.29
datorem Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.16
datori Plautus, Truculentus 2.7
datorem Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.790
datores Plautus, Cistellaria 2.1

6 of 17 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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