The corpus record — Latin

decoctor

decoctor · m

one who has squandered his own or another's property, a ruined spendthrift, bankrupt

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Where it lives

De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
In L. Catilinam 1 · 0.8/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

dēcoctor — Lewis & Short

dēcoctor, ōris, m.decoquo, no. I. B.,

I one who has squandered his own or another's property, a ruined spendthrift, bankrupt, Cic. Phil. 2, 18; id. Cat. 2, 3; Catull. 41, 4: pecuniae publicae, Cod. Theod. 12, 1, 117 al.: bonorum suorum, Spart. Hadr. 18, 9; Sen. Ep. 81, 2; id. Ben. 4, 26, 3.

In the wild

decoctorum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.10.p4
decoctoris Catullus, Carmina lyrics.41.4
decoctoris Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 6.9.12
decoctorum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.25.p18
decoctoribus Cicero, Philippicae 2.44
decoctorum Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 3.65

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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