The corpus record — Latin

desertor

desertor · m

one who forsakes, abandons, deserts

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Where it lives

Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
Avidius Cassius 1 · 3.83/10k
Cum Populo Gratias Egit 1 · 3.79/10k
Ad Nationes 5 · 3.34/10k
De idolatria 2 · 2.9/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 2 · 2.41/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dēsertor — Lewis & Short

dēsertor, ōris, m.id.,

I one who forsakes, abandons, deserts any one.—

I Prop.

A In gen.: amicorum (opp. conservator inimicorum), Cic. Att. 8, 9, 3: communis utilitatis aut salutis, id. Fin. 3, 19, 64.—Esp. freq.,

B Milit. t. t., a runaway, deserter (opp. transfuga, one who joins the enemy, Dig. 48, 16, 5, § 8), * Caes. B. G. 6, 23, 8 (with proditor, as in Tac. H. 1, 72); Liv. 3, 69, 7; 23, 18, 16; Tac. A. 1, 21; Vell. 2, 85; 119; Flor. 4, 2, 52; Suet. Caes. 68; Front. Strat. 4, 1, 29; Dig. 48, 16, 3 init. al. et saep.—

2 Transf. beyond the milit. sphere, a deserter, one who abandons: Amoris, Ov. H. 19, 157: Asiae, *Verg. A. 12, 15.—

II Trop.: usus corporis desertor animi, a forsaker, Stat. Th. 8, 739.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. désertor (scan p. 642; entry #10622).

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