The corpus record — Latin

designator

designator · m

one who regulates

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Where it lives

Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Letters to Atticus 3 · 0.24/10k
In C. Verrem 2 · 0.2/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

dēsignātor — Lewis & Short

dēsignātor or dissignātor (the latter form freq. in inscrr., and preferred by Brambach; so Keller, ad ōris, m.id.,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 5; Corp. Inscr. Lat. pp. 597, 768),

I one who regulates or arranges; a regulator.—As a t. t.,

I An officer whose duty it was to assign seats in the theatre, Plaut. Poen. prol. 19.—

II A master of ceremonies at funerals; an undertaker, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 5; Sen. Ben. 6, 38; Tert. Spectac. 10; Inscr. Orell. 934; cf. Don. Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 7.—

III An umpire at public spectacles, i. q. Gr. brabeuth/s, Dig. 3, 2, 4, § 1; Cic. Att. 4, 3, 2.

Where it came from

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