The corpus record — Latin

frenator

frenator · m

a curber

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Where it lives

Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

frēnātor — Lewis & Short

frēnātor, ōris, m.id.,

I a curber, tamer, controller (post-Aug.).

I Lit.: (sol) ignipedum frenator equorum, Stat. Th. 1, 27.— Poet. transf.: ingentis frenator Sarmata conti, i. e. a hurler, Val. Fl. 6, 162.—

II Trop.: infinitae potestatis domitor ac frenator animus, Plin. Pan. 55, 9.

In the wild

frenator Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.162
frenator Statius, Thebais 1.27

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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