The corpus record — Latin

nugator

nugator · m

a jester, joker, babbler, trifler, silly person

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Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Trinummus 4 · 4.07/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Pro L. Flacco 1 · 0.92/10k
Miles Gloriosus 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 1 · 0.59/10k
Noctes Atticae 3 · 0.27/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

nūgātor — Lewis & Short

nūgātor, ōris, m.nugor,

I a jester, joker, babbler, trifler, silly person; hence, too, a braggart, a swaggerer: illic nugator nili, non nauci'st homo, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. naucus, p. 166 Müll. (Com. v. 10 Vahl.); Lucil. ap. Non. 35, 24; Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 91; 5, 2, 14: nimius, id. Capt. 2, 2, 25: vae tibi nugator! id. Mil. 4, 2, 86: non vero tam isti (lacerti), quam tu ipse nugator, Cic. Sen. 9, 27: neque in istum nugatorem, tamquam in aliquem testem, invehar, id. Fl. 16, 38; Liv. 38, 56: homo nihili et nugator, Gell. 15, 2, 2: iste nugator libellus, Aus. Idyll. 11 praef.: cessas nugator? Pers. 5, 127.—

II Perh., a debauchee, Prud. Cath. 2, 29.

In the wild

nugator Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 12.2.7
nugator Ausonius, Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1.17
nugatorem Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 p41
nugator Persius, Saturae 5.127
nugator Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 11.8.4
nugator Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.2.2

6 of 19 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. nugator (scan p. 458; entry #7373). Root candidates: *nebhlo-.

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