The corpus record — Latin

ministrator

ministrator · m

an attendant, waiter, servant

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Where it lives

Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Pro L. Flacco 1 · 0.92/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
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What it meant

mĭnistrātor — Lewis & Short

mĭnistrātor, ōris, m.id.,

I an attendant, waiter, servant (class.): (turbam) transeo ministratorum, per quos, signo dato, ad inferendam cenam discurritur, Sen. Ep. 95, 24: vinum dominicum ministratoris gratia est, cup-bearer, Petr. 31, 2; Dig. 50, 16, 203: MERCVRIVS, Inscr. Fabr. 114: accensos ministratores, Cato esse scribit, Varr. L. L. 7, § 18 Müll.: cum auriganti Caio ministratorem exhiberet, play the assistant, the instructor, Suet. Vit. 17: cum te ipsum, Sulpici, objurgabam, quod ministratorem peteres, non adversarium, Cic. de Or. 2, 75, 305: quasi ministrator, aderat, subiciens, quid dicerem, id. Fl. 22, 53.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. ministrator (scan p. 429; entry #6898).

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