The corpus record — Latin

emptor

emptor · m

a buyer

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 11 · 7.03/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 4 · 3.02/10k
De Officiis 9 · 2.66/10k
De Lege Agraria 3 · 2.18/10k
Pro A. Caecina 2 · 1.93/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
Poenulus 2 · 1.81/10k
Topica 1 · 1.46/10k
Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k

Densest 12 of 44 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

emptor — Lewis & Short

emptor (emt-), ōris, m.id.,

I a buyer, purchaser (cf.: negotiator, mercator, caupo, institor), Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 128 sq.; id. Pers. 4, 4, 31; Cic. Off. 3, 12, 51; id. Phil. 2, 38; id. Caecin. 7, 19; Hor. S. 1, 2, 88; id. Ep. 2, 2, 167 et saep.; cf., on the laws affecting him, the authorities cited under emptio: pretiosus dedecorum, i. e. who buys them dearly (=magno pretio emens), Hor. C. 3, 6, 32: familiae, the imaginary purchaser of an inheritance per aes et libram, Suet. Ner. 4 Bremi; cf. Rein's Privatr. p. 375.

In the wild

emptorem Plautus, Poenulus 1.2
emptori Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.2.p1
emptori Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.4.p2
emptores Cicero, Pro A. Caecina 16
emptores Cicero, De Officiis 3.57.p1
emptoribus Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 68

6 of 104 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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