The corpus record — Latin

derisor

derisor · m

a mocker, scoffer, satirical person

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Where it lives

De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dērīsor — Lewis & Short

dērīsor, ōris, m.id.,

I a mocker, scoffer, satirical person (rare; not in Cic.): ut tu semper eris derisor, Hor. S. 2, 6, 54; id. A. P. 433; Quint. 3, 8, 51: Anubis derisor populi, Juv. 6, 534; Vulg. Prov. 9, 7 al. Applied to a (jeering) parasite, Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 3; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 11; to a stage mimic, Mart. 1, 5, 5; Orell. Inscr. 4926.

Where it came from

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