The corpus record — Latin

operarius

labourer

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Where it lives

De Patientia 2 · 4.42/10k
De agri cultura 6 · 3.84/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 1 · 2.32/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Adversus Marcionem 11 · 1.33/10k
Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 1 · 0.9/10k
Brutus 2 · 0.8/10k
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 1 · 0.75/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. operarius — de Vaan

operarius 'labourer' (Pl>), operaria 'woman who hires out her services' (PI.), — [de Vaan, s.v. operarius, p. 446]

2. ŏpĕrārĭus — Lewis & Short

ŏpĕrārĭus, a, um, adj.opera,

I of or belonging to labor (class.): homo, Cic. Att. 7, 2, 8: pecus, working-cattle, Col. 6, 2, 15: vinum, for working-men, Plin. 14, 10, 12, § 86.—

II Subst.

A ŏpĕrārĭus, ii, m., a laborer, workman, operative: habere oportet operarios quinque, Cato, R. R. 10, 1: operarius rusticus, the peasant as a day-laborer, Edict. Diocl. 7, 1; cf.: operarius agrarius, Vulg. Ecclus. 37, 13: quos singulos sicut operarios barbarosque contemnas, Cic. Tusc. 5, 36, 104: quidam operarii linguā celeri et exercitatā, fluent talkers, bad orators, id. de Or. 1, 18, 83: operarium nobis quendam oratorem facis, underworkman, id. ib. 1, 62, 263: si quid actum erit, quod isti operarii minus commode persequi possent, i. e. scribes, secretaries, id. Fam. 8, 1, 2.—

B ŏpĕrārĭa, ae, f., a work-woman, in a comic lusus verbb., Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 41.

In the wild

operarios Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.24
operarii Cicero, Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 3.23
operarius Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.24
operarii Cicero, Brutus 257
operarii Cato, De agri cultura 145
operarii Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.3.7

6 of 48 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. operarius (scan p. 446; entry #1213).

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