The corpus record — Latin

molitor1

molitor1 · m

one who undertakes

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Where it lives

Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

1. mōlītor — Lewis & Short

mōlītor, ōris, m.molior,

I one who undertakes to do a thing, an attempter, author, framer, contriver (class.): effector mundi molitorque deus, Cic. Univ. 5: ratis, Ov. M. 8, 302: caedis, Tac. A. 11, 29: novarum rerum, Suet. Dom. 10: maximorum molitores scelerum, Sen. Tranq. 7, 3.

2. mŏlĭtor — Lewis & Short

mŏlĭtor, ōris, m.1. molo,

I a miller (post-class.).

I Lit., Dig. 33, 7, 12, § 15. —

II Transf., in mal. part., Aus. Ep. 90, 3.

In the wild

molitores Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi 9.7.5
molitor Cicero, Timaeus 17
molitores Suetonius, Domitianus 10.2.p2
molitor Tacitus, Annales 11.p32
molitor Ausonius, Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 94.3
molitor Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.302

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. molitor (scan p. 434; entry #6995).

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