The corpus record — Latin

negotiator

negotiator · m

one who does business by wholesale, a wholesale dealer, a banker, a factor

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Where it lives

Pro Fonteio 5 · 11.02/10k
Pro M. Scauro 1 · 3.37/10k
Gallieni Duo 1 · 2.72/10k
Jugurtha 4 · 1.88/10k
Alexander Severus 2 · 1.87/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 2 · 1.84/10k
Pro L. Flacco 2 · 1.83/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
De Bello Africo 2 · 1.54/10k
In C. Verrem 15 · 1.49/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

nĕgōtĭātor — Lewis & Short

nĕgōtĭātor (nĕgōc-), ōris, m.id.,

I one who does business by wholesale, a wholesale dealer, a banker, a factor (cf.: institor, mercator): improbus negotiator, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 2, § 7: mercator an negotiator, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 77, § 188; id. Planc. 26, 64.—

II In gen.

A A trader, tradesman (post-Aug.): trucidati negotiatores, Vell. 2, 110, 6: mercis sordidae, Quint. 1, 12, 17: mancipiorum, id. 5, 12, 17; cf. Suet. Ner. 32: vestiarius, Dig. 38, 1, 45: frumentarius, ib. 50, 5, 9; Vulg. Gen. 37, 28.—

2 NEGOTIATOR, an appellation of Mercury as the god of tradesmen, Inscr. Grut. 55, 1.—

B A factor, agent, intrusted with the management of a business, Labeo ap. Dig. 32, 65 prooem.

In the wild

negotiatoris Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.12.p2
negotiatores Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Africo 90
negotiator Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.12.17
negotiatoribus Suetonius, Divus Claudius 18.2
negotiatores Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 5.12.16
negotiatoris Cicero, In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 55

6 of 89 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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