The corpus record — Latin

factor

factor · m

a maker

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Where it lives

Apotheosis 6 · 8.1/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
De agri cultura 6 · 3.84/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 4 · 3.6/10k
Divus Claudius 2 · 3.13/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Peristephanon Liber 4 · 2.28/10k
De Anima 5 · 2.1/10k
De Provinciis Consularibus In Senatu 1 · 1.95/10k
Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k

Densest 12 of 58 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

factor — Lewis & Short

factor, ōris, m.id.,

I a maker, doer, performer, perpetrator (ante- and postclass.).

I In gen.: cuparum doliorumque, Pall. 1, 6: qui praepositum suum non praetexit, cum posset, in pari causa factori habendus est, the doer, Dig. 49, 16, 6, § 8: sceleris, ib. 29, 5, 1, § 21; 48, 3, 7: suus, his creator, Vulg. Deut. 32, 15; id. Isa. 29, 16 al.: legis, doer, id. Rom. 2, 13; id. Jacob, 1, 23.—

II In partic.

A In econom. lang., an oil-presser, Cato, R. R. 13; 64; 66; 67.—*

B In ball-playing, he who strikes the ball, the batsman, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 18; cf. dator.

In the wild

factorum Cicero, Philippicae 1.29
Factorum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 12.7.8
factorum Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklürt von M. Weissenborn, book 45 p23
factorum Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 6.10.4
factorum Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.5.5.11
factorum Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.45.33.5

6 of 127 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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