The corpus record — Latin

fictor

fictor · m

one who makes images of clay

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Where it lives

Trinummus 2 · 2.03/10k
Epidicus 1 · 1.54/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 1 · 0.66/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 1 · 0.5/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 6 · 0.15/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

fictor — Lewis & Short

fictor, ōris, m.fingo,

I one who makes images of clay, wood, wax, etc., an imagemaker, statuary.

I (Syn.: pictor, scalptor, sculptor, plastes, statuarius.) Lit.

A In gen.: deos ea facie novimus, qua pictores fictoresque voluerunt, Cic. N. D. 1, 29, 81; id. Fragm. ap. Lact. 2, 8, p. 120 Bip.—

B In partic. in relig. lang., a baker of offering-cakes: apud Ennium: Libaque, fictores, Argeos et tutulatos ... Fictores dicti a fingendis libis, Varr. L. L. 7, § 44 Müll. (cf. Ann. v. 124 ed. Vahl.); so Inscr. Orell. 934; 2281; 2458; cf. Cic. Dom. 54, 139. —

2 A maker, creator, Vulg. Isa. 29, 16; 45, 9.—

II Trop.

A In gen., a maker, former (Plautin.): (fortunae) ... vitae agundae, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 85 sq.: omnium Legum atque jurium, id. Ep. 3, 4, 86: somniorum, Vulg. Deut. 13, 5.—

B In partic., a feigner: fandi fictor Ulixes, a master of deceit, Verg. A. 9, 602.

In the wild

fictoresque Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.81
fictor Plautus, Epidicus 3.4
fictores Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.11.p3
fictorem Plautus, Trinummus 2.2
fictores Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.4.12
fictores Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.12.p2

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