The corpus record — Latin

gubernator

gubernator · m

a steersman

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Where it lives

Chabrias 1 · 20.45/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 2 · 4.65/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Atticus 1 · 2.83/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 1 · 2.82/10k
De Divinatione 7 · 2.55/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 29 3 · 2.44/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 28 · 2.35/10k
Satyricon 7 · 2.3/10k
Amphitruo 2 · 2.03/10k
De Bello Civili 6 · 1.86/10k

Densest 12 of 66 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

gŭbernātor — Lewis & Short

gŭbernātor, ōris, m.id.,

I a steersman, pilot (cf.: magister, navarchus, nauclerus, navicularius).

I Lit.: si tu proreta isti navi's, ego gubernator ero, Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 75; id. Am. 3, 2, 69: gubernator clavum tenens sedet in puppi quietus, Cic. de Sen. 6, 17; id. Phil. 7, 9, 27; id. Ac. 2, 31, 100; id. de Inv. 1, 34, 58; id. Rep. 1, 40; 5, 3; Quint. 2, 17, 24; 34; 4, 1, 61; Verg. A. 3, 269; 5, 12; 6, 337 et saep.—Prov.: tranquillo quilibet gubernator est, Sen. Ep. 85 med.—

II Transf., a director, ruler, governor: cum in rebus animalibus aliud pro alio ponitur; ut de agitatore (Ennius): Gubernator magna contorsit equum vi, Quint. 8, 6, 9; the same, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 244 P. and ap. Diom. p. 451 ib. (Ann. v. 160 Vahl.): poli, i. e. God, Sen. Hippol. 903: custodes gubernatoresque rei publicae, Cic. Rab. Perd. 9, 26; cf.: quasi tutor et procurator rei publicae: sic enim appelletur, quicumque erit rector et gubernator civitatis, id. Rep. 2, 29.

In the wild

gubernatorem Celsus, De Medicina 1.pr.p10
Gubernator Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.85.33
gubernatorem Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 3.pr.14
gubernatori Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.85.30
gubernator Petronius, Satyricon 114
gubernator Plautus, Rudens 4.3

6 of 159 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. gubernator (scan p. 308; entry #4840).

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