The corpus record — Latin

peremptor

peremptor · m

a destroyer

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Where it lives

Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Res Gestae 11 · 0.86/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.75/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

pĕremptor — Lewis & Short

pĕremptor (pĕremtor), ōris, m.id.,

I a destroyer, slayer, murderer (postclass.): incluti regis, Sen. Oedip. 221: mariti mei cruentis, App. M. 8, p. 207, 16; cf.: puer ille peremptor meus, i. e. who has playued me almost to death, id. ib. 7, p. 198, 21.—Absol., Prud. Ham. praef. 19; Ambros. Inst. Virg. 7, 4, 9; Vulg. 2 Macc. 4, 16.

In the wild

peremptorum Lucan, Pharsalia 6.632
peremptorum Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.21.16.2
peremptorum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.4.12
peremptor Prudentius, Hamartigenia pr.33
peremptoris Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.1102
peremptores Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 25.6.6

6 of 24 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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