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reciperator

assessor

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Where it lives

Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Pro A. Caecina 1 · 0.96/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

1. reciperator — de Vaan

reciperator 'assessor' (PL+); capesso, -ere 'to grasp, seize' (pf -fvi, ptc.fuLact -iturus) (Naev.+; Pac. lx capissam); praecipuus 'special, exceptional' (PL+); — [de Vaan, s.v. reciperator, p. 103]

2. rĕcĭpĕrātor — Lewis & Short

rĕcĭpĕrātor (rĕcŭp-), ōris, m.id.,

I a regainer, recoverer.

I In gen.: urbis, a recapturer, Tac. A. 2, 52: diviti decepto multi recuperatores, helpers, Vulg. Ecclus. 13, 26.—

II In partic., jurid. t. t., recuperatores, a board consisting of three or five members, originally only for processes between Romans and peregrini, but afterwards for summary trial in other causes, esp. concerning property and de statu (cf.: arbiter, judex; freq. and class.), Fest. p. 228 Müll.; cf. Gai. Inst. 4, 46; 109; 185: postquam praetor reciperatores dedit, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 36; id. Rud. 5, 1, 2; Cic. Caecin. 1 sq.; id. Tull. 1 sq.; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 11, § 28 sq.; 2, 3, 58, § 135 sqq.; id. Fl. 20, 47; 21, 49; Liv. 26, 48; 43, 2; Suet. Ner. 17; id. Dom. 8; Gell. 20, 1, 13 al.; Tac. A. 2, 52; id. H. 1, 74.

In the wild

recuperatorve Cicero, Pro A. Caecina 8
reciperatorem Tacitus, Annales 2.p53
recuperator Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.117
reciperatores Suetonius, Nero 17.1
reciperatores Suetonius, Domitianus 8.1
reciperatores Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 7.3.17

6 of 7 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. reciperator (scan p. 103; entry #202).

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