The corpus record — Latin

parasitor

parasitor · v. dep

to play the parasite

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Where it lives

Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 1 · 0.47/10k
Controversiae 2 · 0.3/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

părăsītor — Lewis & Short

părăsītor. āri, v. dep.id.,

I to play the parasite, to sponge: parasitarier, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 54: parasitando pascere ventres suos, id. Pers. 1, 2, 3.

In the wild

parasitorum Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 3.4
parasitorum Plautus, Captivi 3.1
parasitorum Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.6.9
parasitando Plautus, Persa 1.2
parasitorum Ausonius, Epistularum 5.46
parasitarier Plautus, Stichus 4.2

6 of 9 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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