The corpus record — Latin

mensor

mensor · m

a measurer

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Where it lives

Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Letters 2 · 0.31/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

mensor — Lewis & Short

mensor, ōris, m.metior,

I a measurer (post Aug.).

I In gen.: te maris, et terrae, numeroque carentis arenae Mensorem cohibent, Archyta, Hor. C. 1, 28, 1: frumentarius, a corn-measurer, Paul. Dig. 27, 1, 26.—

II In partic.

A A surveyor: non agricolae sed mensoris officium esse dicebam, Col. 6, 1: cautus humum longo signavit limite mensor, Ov. M. 1, 136.—

B An architect, Plin. Ep. 10, 27, 5; 10, 18, 3; Inscr. Orell. 3223.—

C Milit. t. t.

1 An engineer, Amm. 19, 11, 8; Cassiod. Var. 3, 52.—

2 One who measures out the ground for an encampment, a quartermaster, Veg. Mil. 2, 7, Cod. Th. 7, 8, 4; Inscr. Orell. 3473.

Where it came from

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