The corpus record — Latin

faenerator

faenerator · m

one who lends on interest

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

Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Catilina 2 · 1.87/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 1 · 0.94/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 1 · 0.79/10k
Pro P. Sestio 1 · 0.6/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 1 · 0.56/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

faenĕrātor — Lewis & Short

faenĕrātor (less correctly fēn-, foen-), ōris, m.faeneror,

I one who lends on interest, a money-lender, capitalist; with an odious secondary idea, a usurer (class.): improbantur ii quaestus, qui in odia hominum incurrunt, ut portitorum, ut faeneratorum, Cic. Off. 1, 42, 150; Cato, R. R. praef. § 1; Sall. C. 33, 1; Cic. Fam. 5, 6, 2; Hor. Epod. 2, 67; Suet. Tib. 48: acerbissimi, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 6.

In the wild

faeneratorum Sallust, Catilina 33
faeneratoribus Cicero, Letters to Atticus 5.21.12
faeneratores Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.7.28.8
faeneratores Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.35.41.9
faeneratores Suetonius, Tiberius 48.1
faeneratoribus Cicero, Letters to Atticus 6.1.6

6 of 38 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.