The corpus record — Latin

redemptor

redemptor · m

one who undertakes a thing by way of contract; a contractor

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Where it lives

Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 3 · 1.63/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 2 · 0.93/10k
De Inventione 3 · 0.91/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 1 · 0.67/10k
In C. Verrem 6 · 0.6/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 42 1 · 0.6/10k
De Architectura 3 · 0.52/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕdemptor — Lewis & Short

rĕdemptor, ōris, m.id..

I In all periods of the lang., one who undertakes a thing by way of contract; a contractor, undertaker, purveyor, farmer (syn. conductor); absol.: redemptor qui columnam illam de Cottā et de Torquato conduxerat faciendam, Cic. Div. 2, 21, 47; so Cato, R. R. 107 in lemm.; Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 96: redemptori tuo dimidium pecuniae curavi, id. Q. Fr. 2, 4, 2; Liv. 34, 9 fin.; Hor. C. 3, 1, 35; id. Ep. 2, 2, 72 et saep.— With gen.: tutelae Capitolii, Plin. 35, 3, 4, § 14: pontis, one who farmed the tolls of a bridge, Dig. 19, 2, 60 fin.: vectigalium, ib. 50, 5, 8 et saep.; cf. Fest. p. 270 Müll., and Becker, Antiq. 2, 1, p. 270 and 3, 2, p. 217.—

II In jurid. Lat.: redemptor litis.

a One who releases a debtor from a demand, by paying his creditor, Dig. 17, 1, 6 fin.—

b One who, for a consideration, undertakes the risk of a suit (freq.), Dig. 1, 16, 9; Cod. Just. 2, 14 fin.—

III In eccl. Lat., the Redeemer (of the world from sin), Aug. Serm. 130, 2; Hier. Ep. 66, 8 fin.; Vulg. Job, 19, 25; id. Act. 7, 35 et saep.

In the wild

redemptoribus Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 p7
redemptorem Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.43
redemptores Cicero, Letters to Atticus 4.2.5
redemptore Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.16
redemptor Horace, Carmina 3.1
redemptor Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.3.p1

6 of 47 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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