The corpus record — Latin

delator

delator · m

an accuser, informer, denouncer

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

Where it lives

Commodus Antoninus 8 · 23.09/10k
Helvius Pertinax 2 · 7.69/10k
Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
Domitianus 2 · 5.81/10k
Maximini Duo 3 · 5.53/10k
Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
C. Caligula 3 · 3.93/10k
Nero 3 · 3.84/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 2 · 3.76/10k
Tiberius 2 · 2.2/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 5 · 2.03/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dēlātor — Lewis & Short

dēlātor, ōris, m.id.,

I an accuser, informer, denouncer (only post-Aug.; esp. freq. in Tacit. and Suet.): judices ... delatores, Quint. 9, 2, 74; cf. 3, 10, 3: delatorum judicium, quasi latronum, Plin. Pan. 34, 1 sq.; 35, 1; Suet. Tib. 45; 61; Tac. A. 6, 40; id. H. 1, 2 et saep.: majestatis, i. e. of hightreason, Tac. A. 2, 50; cf.: Papiae legis, i. e. one who denounces a violation of it, Suet. Ner. 10.

In the wild

delatores Historia Augusta, Commodus Antoninus 18
delatores Historia Augusta, Opilius Macrinus 12
delatorum Tacitus, Annales 3.p25
delator Tertullian, De Fuga in Persecutione 12
delatores Historia Augusta, Maximini Duo 15
delatores Historia Augusta, Maximini Duo 13

6 of 73 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

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.