The corpus record — Latin

observator

observator · m

a watcher, observer

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Where it lives

De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
Adversus Marcionem 2 · 0.24/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

observātor — Lewis & Short

observātor, ōris, m.id.,

I a watcher, observer (perh. not ante-Aug.): nemo observator, nemo castigator assistet, Plin. Pan. 40: observator et custos bonorum, Sen. Ep. 41, 2: Catholicae legis, i. e. one who obeys it, Cod. Th. 16, 5, 1.

In the wild

observatores Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.35
observatores Tertullian, De ieiunio adversus psychicos 2
observatores Tertullian, De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 33
observator Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 25.4.17
observator Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 4.41.2
observator Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.36

Where it came from

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