The corpus record — Latin

litigator

litigator · m

one engaged in a dispute, a disputant

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Where it lives

Divus Vespasianus 2 · 6.25/10k
Divus Claudius 2 · 3.13/10k
Institutio Oratoria 43 · 2.5/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 2 · 2.15/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lītĭgātor — Lewis & Short

lītĭgātor, ōris, m.id.,

I one engaged in a dispute, a disputant.

I In gen., Plin. praef. § 32: litigatores furiosi, Lact. 3, 8 init. (al. litigationes, v. litigatio).—

II In partic., a party in a lawsuit, a litigant: litigator rusticus illitteratusque de sua causa melius, quam orator, qui nescit, quid in lite sit, dicet, Quint. 2, 21, 16: ne omnia testimonia expetat a litigatore, id. 10, 1, 34; Tac. A. 13, 42; Plin. Pan. 80; Gai. Inst. 4, 42; 105 et saep.

Where it came from

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