The corpus record — Latin

janitor

janitor · m

a door-keeper, porter, janitor

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Where it lives

De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Ars Amatoria 2 · 1.34/10k
Amores 2 · 1.28/10k
Silvae 3 · 1.2/10k
Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 1 · 0.86/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

jānĭtor — Lewis & Short

jānĭtor († jānĭtos, ōris, m.janua,

Varr. L. L. 7, § 27 Müll.),

I a door-keeper, porter, janitor: heus ecquis hic est janitor? aperite, Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 110: carceris, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 45, § 118: janitor (indignum!) durā religate catenā, Ov. Am. 1, 6, 1: utque sedens vester primi prope limina tecti, janitor egressus videt, id. F. 1, 138; Hor. S. 2, 7, 45; id. C. 3, 14, 23; Tib. 1, 1, 65; Col. 1 praef.—

II Poet., transf.

A Caeli janitor, i. e. Janus, Ov. F. 1, 139.—

B (Ingens) janitor, of Cerberus, Verg. A. 6, 400; cf. Hor. C. 3, 11, 16.

In the wild

ianitor Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.124
ianitor Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.17.p1
ianitor Plautus, Menaechmi 4.2
ianitor Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.587
ianitor Martial, Epigrammata 5.22.10
Ianitor Silius Italicus, Punica 2.552

6 of 40 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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