The corpus record — Latin

debitor

debitor · m

a debtor

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Oratione 5 · 11.14/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 2 · 5.12/10k
De Paenitentia 2 · 4.91/10k
De Patientia 2 · 4.42/10k
De Beneficiis 16 · 3.52/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 15 · 3.24/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 2 · 1.58/10k
De Monogamia 1 · 1.43/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 2 · 1.12/10k

Densest 12 of 52 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dēbĭtor — Lewis & Short

dēbĭtor, ōris, m.id.,

I a debtor; cf.: nexus, obaeratus.

I Lit. (quite class.), Cic. Off. 2, 22, 78; id. Flacc. 20, 48; id. Pis. 35, 86; Caes. B. C. 3, 1; 3, 20; Quint. 3, 6, 84; * Juv. 16, 40 et saep.: aeris, * Hor. S. 1, 3, 86.—

II Trop. (mostly poet., and perh. not ante-Aug.).

A (after debeo, no. II. A.): voti, one whose wish has been granted, and who is hence bound to perform his vow, Mart. 9, 42, 8: mercede soluta Non manet officio debitor ille tuo, Ov. Am. 1, 10, 46; Sen. Contr. 1, 1, 11; cf. Vulg. Rom. 1, 14.— More freq.,

B (after debeo, no. II. B.), one who is indebted or under obligation to some one for something; constr. with gen. of the thing, and dat. of the person: qui debitor est vitae tibi suae, Ov. Pont. 4, 1, 2: animae hujus, id. Tr. 1, 5, 10: animi amici, id. Pont. 4, 8, 6: habebis ipsum gratissimum debitorem, Plin. Ep. 3, 2 fin.

In the wild

debitoribus Cicero, Pro P. Sestio 94
debitorum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 20.1.41
debitoris Seneca, De Beneficiis 1.1.2
debitores Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 p6
debitores Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.35.7.2
debitor Ovid, Tristia 1.5.10

6 of 112 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.