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nugatorius

nugatorius · adj

trifling, worthless, useless, futile, nugatory

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Where it lives

Trinummus 2 · 2.03/10k
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 2 · 1.51/10k
Pro A. Caecina 1 · 0.96/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

nūgātōrĭus — Lewis & Short

nūgātōrĭus, a, um, adj.nugator,

I trifling, worthless, useless, futile, nugatory: nugatoriae artes, i. e. lies, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 2: boves Ligustici, worthless, useless, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 9; so, unguentum, id. L. L. 7, § 64 Müll.: ad probandum res infirma nugatoriaque, Cic. Caecin. 23, 64: illud valde leve est ac nugatorium, id. Fam. 11, 2, 3: in malā nugatoriāque accusatione, id. Rosc. Am. 15, 42: genus argumentationis, not to the point, Auct. Her. 2, 20, 31: genus deorum, Aug. Civ. Dei, 4, 27.—As subst.: nū-gātōrĭus, ii, m., a worthless fellow, nugatorium vocant, Sen. Ep. 36, 2.—Hence, adv.: nūgātōrĭē, triflingly, frivolously: tenuiter et nugatorie respondere, Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48.

In the wild

nugatorium Plautus, Trinummus 4.2
nugatoriamque Cicero, Pro A. Caecina 64
nugatorium Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.33
Nugatorium Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 4.36.2
nugatorium Cicero, De Oratore 2.315
nugatorias Plautus, Trinummus 4.2

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Where it came from

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