The corpus record — Latin

latrator

latrator · m

a barker

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

Where it lives

Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

lātrātor — Lewis & Short

lātrātor, ōris, m.id.,

I a barker (perh. not ante-Aug.).

I Lit., poet. for a dog: Molossi, Mart. 12, 1: Anubis (who is represented with the head of a dog), Verg. A. 8, 698; Ov. M. 9, 690.—

II Transf., a bawler, brawler: a viro bono in rabulam latratoremque converti, Quint. 12, 9, 12.

In the wild

latratoremque Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.9.12
latrator Vergil, Aeneid 8.698
latrator Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.532
latratorque Silius Italicus, Punica 2.444
latratoresque Martial, Epigrammata 12.1.1
latrator Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.690

Where it came from

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

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

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.