The corpus record — Latin

liberator

liberator · m

a freer, deliverer, liberator

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

Where it lives

Dion 1 · 6.74/10k
Philippicae 8 · 1.52/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 3 · 1.49/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 2 · 1.33/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 1 · 1.05/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 1 · 0.76/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 6 1 · 0.74/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 1 · 0.6/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lībĕrātor — Lewis & Short

lībĕrātor, ōris, m.id.,

I a freer, deliverer, liberator: patriae liberatores, Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 6: urbis, Liv. 1, 60: nostri liberatores, Cic. Att. 14, 12, 2: liberator suus, Liv. 6, 14: scortorum, * Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 14.— In apposition: liberator populus, Liv. 35, 18 fin.—So as an epithet of Jupiter (like *zeus e)leuqe/rios): libare se liquorem illum Jovi liberatori, Tac. A. 15, 64; 16, 35.—So in eccl. Lat. freq. of God: refugium meum ac liberator meus, Vulg. Psa. 17, 3.—

II Transf.: liberator ille populi Romani animus, Liv. 1, 56.

In the wild

liberatori Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.6.14.5
liberator Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.pr.13
liberatori Tacitus, Annales 15.p66
liberatoribus Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 p61
liberator Plautus, Persa 3.3
liberatori Tacitus, Annales 16.p36

6 of 45 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. liberator (scan p. 686; entry #11387).

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