The corpus record — Latin

raptor

raptor · m

one who seizes by force

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Excerpta Controversiae 24 · 11.19/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 6 · 8.6/10k
Controversiae 46 · 6.97/10k
Ibis 2 · 5.09/10k
Phaedra 3 · 4.22/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Epidicus 1 · 1.54/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k

Densest 12 of 44 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

raptor — Lewis & Short

raptor, ōris, m.rapio,

I one who seizes by force, a robber, plunderer, abductor, ravisher (only poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn.: praedo, direptor, praedator).

I Lit.

(a) With gen.: (fluvius) rapidus raptori pueri subduxit pedem, Plaut. Men. prol. 65: hostium, id. Ep. 2, 2, 115: panis et peni, id. Trin. 2, 1, 23: orbis, Tac. Agr. 30: filiae, id. A. 1, 58; cf. poet.: thalami mei, i. e. uxoris, Sen. Hippol. 627: templi, Just. 8, 2, 9: ferri, that draws or attracts to itself, i. e. the magnet, Aug. Civ. Dei, 21, 4. —

(b) Adj.: lupi raptores, robbing, plundering, * Verg. A. 2, 356; Ov. M. 10, 540.—

(g) Absol.: rapta et raptores tradere, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 51; Prop. 4 (5), 9, 9; Hor. C. 3, 20, 4; Luc. 3, 125; Mart. 8, 26, 2; Tac. H. 2, 86 al.: ferus, i. e. lupus, Col. 7, 12, 9: gratus raptae raptor fuit, ravisher, Ov. A. A. 1, 680; Hor. C. 4, 6, 2; Mart. 12, 52, 7; Quint. 9, 2, 90; 7, 8, 4: consilium raptor vertit in fallaciam, Phaedr. 1, 32, 5.—

II Trop.: raptores alieni honoris, Ov. M. 8, 438: numquam defuturos raptores Italicae libertatis lupos, etc., Vell. 2, 27, 2.

In the wild

raptor Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 1.31.5
raptor Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 3.5
Raptor Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 3.5
raptoris Silius Italicus, Punica 3.431
raptorem Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.5.3
raptor Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.18.p1

6 of 145 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.