The corpus record — Latin

ratiocinator

ratiocinator · m

a reckoner

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Where it lives

De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

rătĭōcĭnātor — Lewis & Short

rătĭōcĭnātor, ōris, m.id.,

I a reckoner, computant, accountant, i. q. calculator.

I Lit., Cic. Att. 1, 12, 2; Col. 3, 3, 7; Dig. 14, 4, 5, § 16.—

II Trop.: ut boni ratiocinatores esse possimus et addendo deducendoque videre, quae reliqui summa fiat, Cic. Off. 1, 18, 59; Aug. Civ. Dei, 21, 5.

In the wild

ratiocinatores Cicero, De Officiis 1.59.p1
ratiocinator Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.3.7
ratiocinatorem Cicero, Letters to Atticus 1.12.2

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.