The corpus record — Latin

jactator

jactator · m

one who makes an ostentatious display of himself, a boaster, braggart

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

jactātor — Lewis & Short

jactātor, ōris, m.id.,

I one who makes an ostentatious display of himself, a boaster, braggart: rerum a se gestarum, Quint. 11, 1, 17: civilitatis, Suet. Claud. 35; Stat. Th. 6, 837; Gell. 18, 4, 1.—Poet., with inf.: ille sub hiberno somnos educere caelo Jactator, he boasts, Sil. 11, 403.

In the wild

iactator Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.1.17
iactator Suetonius, Divus Claudius 35.1
iactator Silius Italicus, Punica 11.404
iactator Claudian, In Eutropium 2.20.456
iactator Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 3.1.50
iactator Statius, Thebais 6.837

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.