The corpus record — Latin

litterator

litterator · m

A teacher of reading and writing, an elementary instructor

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Where it lives

Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Maximini Duo 1 · 1.84/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

littĕrātor — Lewis & Short

littĕrātor (lītĕr-), ōris, m.id.. *

I A teacher of reading and writing, an elementary instructor: litterator ruditatem eximit, grammaticus doctrinā instruit, App. Flor. p. 363, 5.—

II Transf., a grammarian, critic, philologist, Cat. 14, 9; Mart. Cap. 3, § 229; cf. Kopp ad loc.—

B In opp. to litteratus (a man of real learning), a smatterer, sciolist: alter litterator fuit, alter litteras sciens, Gell. 18, 9, 2; cf. id. 16, 6: Suet. Gram. 4.

Where it came from

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