The corpus record — Latin

finitor

finitor · m

One who determines boundaries

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Where it lives

De Lege Agraria 5 · 3.63/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 1 · 0.67/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

fīnītor — Lewis & Short

fīnītor, ōris, m.id..

I One who determines boundaries, a surveyor (syn.: decempedator, metator): quaestori permittant, finitorem mittant: ratum sit, quod finitor uni illi, a quo missus erit, renuntiaverit, Cic. Agr. 2, 13, 34; 2, 17, 45; 2, 20, 53; Non. 1, 37.—Comically: ejus (argumenti) nunc regiones, limites, confinia Determinabo: ei rei ego sum factus finitor, Plaut. Poen. prol. 49.—

B Transf.: circulus, the horizon, Sen. Q. N. 5, 17, 2; Luc. 9, 496.—*

II One who ends: o cunctis finitor maxime rerum (Pluto), Stat. Th. 8, 91.

In the wild

finitorum Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 p1
finitor Plautus, Poenulus prologue.pr
finitorem Cicero, De Lege Agraria 2.34
finitor Statius, Thebais 8.91
finitor Persius, Saturae 6.80
finitores Cicero, De Lege Agraria 2.32

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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