The corpus record — Latin

formator

formator · m

a former

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Where it lives

De Fide Catholica 1 · 5.19/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

formātor — Lewis & Short

formātor, ōris, m.id.,

I a former, fashioner (post-Aug.).

I Lit.: universi, Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 8; Vulg. Isa. 44, 8; 24. —Plur.: imperii, Amm. 18, 6.—

II Trop.: praeceptor rector est alienorum ingeniorum ac formator, Quint. 10, 2, 20; so, animi (with praeceptor virtutis), Col. 1 praef. § 4: morum (with magister), Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 2: agricolae, Pall. 1, 1.

In the wild

formatore Pliny the Younger, Letters 8.23.2
formator Boethius, De Fide Catholica 1
formatores Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.6.6
formatore Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 26.2.7
formatore Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.674
formatorem Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.pr.4

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Where it came from

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