The corpus record — Latin

lecticarius

lecticarius · m

a litterbearer, sedan-bearer, chairman

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Where it lives

De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 1 · 1.65/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 1 · 0.75/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
Controversiae 2 · 0.3/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

lectīcārĭus — Lewis & Short

lectīcārĭus, i, m.lectica,

I a litterbearer, sedan-bearer, chairman, Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 134; Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 3: lecticarii cum asseribus in auxilium accucurrerunt, with their poles, Suet. Calig. 58: inter urbana ministeria continentur ... et lecticarii, Paul. Sent. 3, 6, 72.—The chairmen formed a guild or corporation: EX CORPORE LECTICARIORVM CAESARIS, Inscr. ap. Grut. 599, 11: DECVRIO LECTICARIORVM, ib. 600, 1; Inscr. Orell. 2871; 6323.

In the wild

lecticarios Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae appendix.16.1
lecticarius Petronius, Satyricon 34
lecticarios Cicero, Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 134
lecticarios Seneca, De Constantia 2.14.1
lecticariis Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 4.12.3
lecticario Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 10.5.22

6 of 10 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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