The corpus record — Latin

fabricator

fabricator · m

an artificer

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

Where it lives

Maximus et Balbinus 1 · 3.18/10k
De idolatria 2 · 2.9/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

fā^brĭcātor, ōris, m.id.,

I an artificer, framer, forger, contriver, fabricator (rare but class.).

I Lit.: ille fabricator tanti operis (mundi), Cic. Univ. 2; so, mundi, Quint, 2, 16, 12; Ov. M. 1, 57: minutorum opusculorum, Cic. Ac. 2, 38, 120: ipse doli (i. e. equi lignei) fabricator Epeos, Verg. A. 2, 264: deorum, i. e. of statues of the gods, Firm. Math. 3, 6, 9.—

II Trop.: dolor ac morbus leti fabricator uterque est, causer, producer, Lucr. 3, 472.

In the wild

fabricator Minucius Felix, Octavius 19.14
fabricator Vergil, Aeneid 2.264
fabricator Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.2.6
fabricator Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.472
fabricator Cicero, Lucullus 120
fabricator Cicero, Timaeus 6

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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.